Reliability in Distributed Systems

This talk explains how to monitor distributed systems, recognize failures, and recover when dependencies become unavailable. It covers monitoring at several levels and techniques such as timeouts and circuit breakers.

Syllabus

Intro
Systems
Goal
What do we communicate with?
Timeouts
Circuit breakers
Async
Disaster recovery
Monitoring - resources
Monitoring - from client side
Monitoring - functionality
Monitoring - anomaly detection
Alerting - error tracking
Deployment where to put it?
Environments
Monitoring - web server
Postmortems
Summary - prevent failing
Summary - monitoring
Summary - testing
Summary - architecture
Summary - logging
Summary - alerting