Service isolation and fault tolerance

Service isolation and fault tolerance

Description
Simpl-Open shall ensure service isolation to prevent failures in one service from affecting others, and implement fault tolerance mechanisms to maintain system availability despite component failures.

SMART Breakdown

• Specific: Defines the need for isolation of services and fault tolerance to ensure system robustness.
• Measurable: Can be measured by the system's ability to recover from failures and by monitoring how isolated services behave when failures occur.
• Achievable: Possible through techniques like circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, and service-level isolation.
• Realistic: This is a standard practice in high-availability, distributed systems (e.g., microservices architectures).
• Timely: Can be enforced during system design, implementation, and monitored continuously.

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