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A brief database slowdown caused a two-hour full outage. Explain the likely amplification chain and the fixes at each stage.

A travel platform depends on hundreds of external suppliers with varying reliability. How should resilience testing be designed when the failures originate outside the system?

How would you test that your service degrades correctly when a dependency's latency rises tenfold?

Review this resilience programme. Chaos experiments run weekly in staging at 03:00, they inject only instance termination, results are recorded in a spreadsheet, and there is a kill switch that has never been used. What would you change, and what would you keep?