Minimizing Blast Radius in Distributed Systems
Identify failure boundaries and isolate them so that issues affect only a small portion of your system.
“Expect failures, limit their impact, and recover fast.”
— Viswa
— Viswa
- Fault Isolation: Use zones, clusters, and independent services to contain failures.
- Redundancy: Backup critical components to reduce outage impact.
- Monitoring & Alerts: Detect failure domains early to prevent cascading failures.
- Disaster Planning: Prepare for multi-component or region-level failures.
“Good architecture limits the damage when bad things happen.”
— Viswa
— Viswa