System Design Lec. 06: What is Fault Tolerance? (How to prevent downtime? How to reduce downtime?)

In this video, we learn about the basics of Fault Tolerance: What it, what kind of issues can an engineer face, how to design resilient systems.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:59 What is Fault Tolerance?
1:30 Why do we need Fault Tolerance?
2:41 Hardware problems
3:39 Software problems
4:26 Network problems
5:40 Solution 1: Redundancy & Failover Mechanisms
12:05 Solution 2: Monitoring
13:55 Solution 3: Graceful Degradation
16:36 How to measure fault tolerance?

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