Chapter 13

Observability, Failure & Recovery

Logs, metrics, and traces to see what a system is doing, plus failure-recovery patterns — retries, circuit breakers, timeouts — that contain bad services.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦Heartbeats and Gossip protocols
✦Circuit Breakers and Retry policies
✦Distributed tracing and metrics collection
✦Graceful degradation strategies

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