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53 questions in Reliability & Resilience.

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A stakeholder wants a video streaming service at 99.99% availability. Walk through whether that is the right target and what it would take.

A dependency fails only under high load, so normal testing never exposes it. How should load testing, fault injection, capacity experiments and traffic shadowing be combined to find it?

Leadership read about Chaos Monkey and wants chaos engineering in production next month. Your last three incidents were caused by known unfixed reliability issues. What do you say?

What is the first chaos experiment you would run on a system you have just inherited, and what must be in place first?

A crypto aggregator's upstream exchange feeds become unreliable during extreme market volatility - the moment users most need them. How should stale data, provider failover, breakers, caching and user-facing warnings interact?

An e-commerce platform designs explicit degradation modes for extreme demand events. What must be true of the mode ladder for it to work on the day?

Define three degradation modes for a real-time marketplace. What triggers each, what stops working, and how does the system return to normal?

An auditor requires evidence that a four-hour RTO is achievable for a system that has never failed over. Production cannot be risked and the business will not accept an unplanned outage. Sequence the first real disaster-recovery test.

Your DR plan is pilot light with a 30-minute RTO. What would you test, and what will the test probably reveal?

A platform has an error budget policy stating that feature work stops when the budget is exhausted. The budget is exhausted, and product leadership wants a major launch to proceed. How should this be resolved?

A team consistently ends every window with 90% of its error budget unspent. What does that tell you?