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Resilience

What is Resilience?

Resilience is the ability for an application to maintain operational status and acceptable service to users despite faults, errors, or threats.

Impact on Today

Given the multitude of services in a cloud-native application, failure is inevitable. Engineering resilience is critical to ensuring the general availability of the overall application, even when parts of the application are not functional.