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Reliable systems are not systems that never fail. Hardware fails, networks become slow, databases reach capacity, dependencies become unavailable, deployments introduce defects, and traffic exceeds expectations. Reliability comes from designing the system so individual failures do not automatically

Production systems fail in many ways: dependencies become slow, application instances crash, queues accumulate work, databases reach capacity, networks become unreliable, deployments introduce defects, and sudden traffic spikes overload otherwise healthy services.