Engineering Atlasby Abhishek Goyal
Course contents

Module 08

Running in production

What keeps a live system healthy: containing failures, recovering from disasters, running across regions, seeing what is happening and shipping changes without an outage.

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By the end of this module you can

  • Protect services with circuit breakers and timeouts
  • Plan recovery with RPO and RTO
  • Explain active-passive vs active-active regions
  • Roll out a change and a schema migration safely

Resilience and recovery

Surviving failures, small and large.

  1. Circuit breakerLessonPremiumSoon
  2. Disaster recoveryLessonPremiumSoon
  3. Multi-region and active-activeLessonPremiumSoon
  4. Backend failure modesDeep dive article · ~22 min readFree

Observability

Seeing what the system is doing.

  1. Observability: logs, metrics and tracesLessonPremiumSoon

Shipping safely

Changing a running system without breaking it.

  1. Deployment strategies: canary, blue-green and feature flagsLessonPremiumSoon
  2. Online schema and data migrationsLessonPremiumSoon
  3. Cost-aware designLessonPremiumSoon