Upstream Resiliency in Distributed System
Proactive strategies to prevent failures before they happen
Upstream Resiliency prevents failures before they happen, keeping systems stable and reliable. It ensures smooth operations by distributing traffic, limiting overload, and maintaining backups.
Load Balancing, Load Shedding & Load Leveling – Distribute traffic efficiently and prevent overload.
Throttling & Rate Limiting – Control excessive requests to maintain system stability.
Redundancy & Replication – Ensure backup systems are active to prevent downtime.
Chaos Engineering – Inject controlled failures to test and improve system resilience.
Conclusion
By adopting upstream strategies like load management, rate control, fault injection, and redundancy, you build a system that doesn’t just survive failure, it’s ready for them and keeps working no matter what.