Reliability in distributed systems is determined by the weakest component, so even a minor internal function could bring your entire system down. Learn how stability patterns anticipate the hot spots of distributed network behavior, then see five patterns applied to RESTful transactions in Jersey and RESTEasy.
Implementing highly available and reliable distributed systems means learning to expect the unexpected. Sooner or later, if you're running a larger software system, you will be faced with incidents in the production environment. Typically you will find two different types of bugs. The first type is related to functional issues like calculation errors or errors in handling and interpreting data. These bugs are easy to reproduce and will usually be detected and fixed before a software system goes into production.
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