The article discusses the limitations of localized mitigation mechanisms in dealing with complex failures that involve interactions between services in a microservice system. It identifies four types of microservice failures:
- cascading failure,
- retry storm,
- death spiral,
- metastable failure.
- Understand the limitations of localized mitigation mechanisms and the importance of a global approach to dealing with complex failures in a microservice system.
- Be aware of the four types of microservice failures: cascading failure, retry storm, death spiral, and metastable failure.
- Evaluate the limitations of existing mitigation mechanisms, such as load shedding, circuit breakers, and auto-scaling.
- Consider adopting a globally aware failure mitigation approach, such as the open-source project Aperture, to improve the resilience of a microservice system.
