Designing Self‑Healing Applications for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
To ensure distributed applications can recover automatically from hardware, network, or service failures, this guide outlines three core capabilities—fault detection, graceful handling, and monitoring—plus practical strategies such as asynchronous component separation, retries, circuit breakers, isolation, load shedding, failover, compensation, checkpointing, graceful degradation, rate limiting, leader election, fault injection, chaos engineering, and use of availability zones.