Reliability & Operations
Overview
Reliable services remain effective and understandable as demand changes and failures occur. These principles make failure handling, performance and capacity, and operational visibility explicit design concerns that are validated before production conditions expose gaps.
Choose a principle below to read its full reasoning.
Principles
Reliability & Resilience
Services anticipate failure and overload, contain their impact, preserve supportable functionality, and maintain tested paths to recovery.
Performance & Scalability
Services make performance, capacity, and scaling explicit design decisions and validate them against realistic demand as they evolve.
Observability
Services build in consistent, correlatable, and proportionate telemetry that explains behaviour, exposes operational impact, and supports incident response.