Failure scenarios for enterprise solutions
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In this lesson
enumerate failure scenarios including third-party and on-premises dependencies.
Planned topics
- Scenario types: component failure, dependency outage, slow dependency, data corruption, bad deployment, region loss, human error, cyberattack.
- Include on-premises systems: the ERP has maintenance windows and capacity limits.
- Each scenario states trigger, impact on processes, detection, and expected response.
- Rate by likelihood and business impact to choose where to invest.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a scenario catalog row: "Payment provider unavailable for 30 min" → impact: web and store card sales → detection: authorization error rate → response: secondary provider or offline mode.
Check your understanding
Why include the slow dependency, not only the dead one?
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Slowness exhausts threads and queues and often does more damage than a clean failure.
Practice
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