ADVREL01-BP01 Use loosely-coupled architectures to enable graceful recovery from failures

Use architecture patterns like service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, and event-driven architecture (EDA) to recover quickly and efficiently from failure. These architectural patterns enable robust failure recovery through loosely coupled designs and enhance system resilience and component self-sufficiency.

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Highly scalable and reliable workloads necessitate reusable software components that are accessible through service interfaces like APIs. Microservices take this a step further by breaking down components into smaller, simpler units. EDAs build upon and enhance microservices with an event broker, fostering greater efficiency.

Implement EDAs using services like Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to decouple components and enable asynchronous communication. This can improve resilience by reducing hard coded dependencies and enabling retries and error handling.

Make sure that the data pipelines of the advertising system operate reliably despite unexpected failures, packet loss, or high latency. Design interactions between components in your distributed advertising system in such way that their failure makes minimal impact.

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