Building Production-Ready Resilient Distributed Systems: Circuit Breakers, Service Mesh, and AI-Powered Failure Prediction

Research Disclaimer This tutorial is based on: Resilience4j v2.1+ (Java resilience library) Polly v8.0+ (C# resilience library) Istio Service Mesh v1.20+ (traffic management, observability) OpenTelemetry v1.25+ (distributed tracing standard) Chaos Mesh v2.6+ (Kubernetes chaos engineering) Prometheus v2.47+ (monitoring and alerting) Grafana v10.0+ (visualization and dashboards) TensorFlow v2.15+ (machine learning for failure prediction) All architectural patterns follow industry best practices from the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline and the Twelve-Factor App methodology. Code examples have been tested in production-like environments as of January 2025. ...

April 16, 2025 · 24 min · Scott