May 24, 2026 · Operations

Can Your Business Keep Running When an API Fails? Strategies for API Resilience

Recent high‑profile outages—from AWS DynamoDB to Cloudflare—show that API failures can cripple enterprises, yet most teams lack visibility into their dependencies; this article examines real‑world API outage scenarios, outlines a four‑layer resilience architecture, and offers concrete steps such as audits, multi‑vendor redundancy, and chaos testing.

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Can Your Business Keep Running When an API Fails? Strategies for API Resilience

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Nov 6, 2015 · Frontend Development

How to Build Robust Fallbacks for High‑Traffic Front‑End Pages

This article explains why large‑scale front‑end pages like Taobao’s homepage need reliable fallback mechanisms, outlines common failure scenarios, and presents practical strategies such as request retries, local caching, and backup APIs to keep the UI functional under high traffic and network issues.

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How to Build Robust Fallbacks for High‑Traffic Front‑End Pages