Why "Resilient" Systems Crash Under Pressure
Most developers think slapping retries and circuit breakers makes a system resilient. It doesn't and can often backfire. Retries aren't free and they consume resources. "Slowness" is often more dangerous than a complete failure. 🔗 Kurrent https://kurrent.io 🔔 Subscribe:    / @codeopinion  💥 Join this channel to get access to a private Discord Server and any source code in my videos. 🔥 Join via Patreon   / codeopinion  ✔️ Join via YouTube    / @codeopinion  📝 Blog: https://codeopinion.com 👋 Twitter:   / codeopinion  ✨ LinkedIn:   / dcomartin  📧 Weekly Updates: https://mailchi.mp/63c7a0b3ff38/codeo... 0:00 Intro 0:56 Example: Worker Queues & Failure Modes 2:08 Why "Slowness" is Worse Than "Down" 4:09 Not All Failures are Equal 5:54 Retries are Not Free 7:21 Resource Exhaustion & Backlogs 8:14 Using Metrics for Global Resilience 9:26 The Resilience Decision Tree (Key Takeaway) 11:05 Summary: Understanding Trade-offs
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