Summary
In this chapter, we covered the topic of reliability, describing a set of techniques and practices that can help you to make your microservices more resilient to various types of failures. You have learned some useful techniques for automating error responses of your services and reducing the negative impact of various types of issues, such as service overloading and unexpected service shutdowns.
In the final part of the chapter, we discussed various reliability techniques based on changes in engineering processes and culture, such as introducing the on-call and incident management processes, as well as performing periodic reliability drills. The knowledge that you gained from reading this chapter should help you to establish a solid foundation for writing reliable microservices.
In the next chapter, we are going to continue our journey into the reliability topic and focus on collecting service telemetry data, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Service telemetry data...
