Availability · Flashcard

Your service calls a provider that is only 99% available. How can your service be more available than it?

medium Resilience

Answer

Do not need it on every request: serve the last good value from a cache, fail over to a second provider, or accept the work and queue it, so it finishes when the provider is back. Without such a fallback, your availability can never exceed the provider's.

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