Six Principles for Building Fault Tolerant Microservices on the JVM

Explore six key principles for developing fault-tolerant microservices on the Java Virtual Machine in this 50-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Delve into strategies for creating robust, distributed applications that gracefully handle network failures. Learn how to implement Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and timeouts, proactively manage workloads, fail gracefully without cascading failures, implement circuit breakers for unreliable dependencies, utilize kill switches, and effectively monitor a microservice architecture. Gain insights from real-world examples drawn from the speaker's experience building systems at Sky television, and discover how embracing the mindset that everything will eventually fail can lead to more resilient application design.