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Course 28 - Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege | Episode 4: Designing for System Resilience and Capacity Defense
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In this lesson, you’ll learn about:
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- Building resilient systems, focusing on availability, stability, and the ability to withstand failures and high load conditions.
- Load and stress testing:
- Ensuring systems can handle traffic spikes and node failures.
- Simulating real-world scenarios to validate system behavior under pressure.
- Resilience as a system property:
- Understanding usage patterns (e.g., per-account limits).
- Preventing attackers or users from amplifying resource consumption.
- Intentional failure testing:
- Using tools like Chaos Monkey to deliberately break components.
- Observing how systems recover and identifying weak points.
- Capacity as a defense strategy:
- Designing systems with high capacity to absorb spikes.
- Improving transaction efficiency to scale without excessive resource allocation.
- Identifying and handling bottlenecks:
- Detecting weak points that limit performance.
- Optimizing system components to improve overall throughput.
- Graceful degradation:
- Maintaining stability under heavy load instead of crashing.
- Prioritizing essential functions while:
- Rejecting expensive or non-critical requests
- Triggering alerts for administrators
- Fail-safe system behavior, ensuring that when limits are reached, the system:
- Slows down predictably
- Protects core functionality
- Avoids total failure
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