Graceful Degradation for OSB
You should realize that not all services are equally useful. Some, like submitting orders, are directly generating revenue to your company. Some others, like getting orders history, while important, can be sacrificed to let orders get submitted. When the system is under a higher then usual load, how can we dynamically shutdown non-essential services to release more resources to the essential ones? Our Playground: the Orders Service For our experiments, I’m going to use a mock service that has two operations: