5 resilience patterns

Resilience Patterns

Mini field guides covering the throttles, fallbacks, and isolation tricks used in the simulator. Each entry explains the problem, the control loop, failure modes, and how the sim animates it.

Why

Cut failure blast radius with proven patterns.

How

Step-by-step explanations plus Mermaid diagrams.

In the sim

See how each control shows up in the visual flow.

Guide

Bulkheads

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Isolate capacity so one problem doesn't sink everything.

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Circuit Breaker

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Stop calling a failing dependency; recover with probes.

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Rate Limiting (Token Bucket)

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Smooth bursts, enforce fairness, and protect downstream capacity.

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Retries

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Recover from transient failures without melting your own system.

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Timeouts

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Bound latency to prevent pile-ups and resource exhaustion.

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