--- title: How to Keep Services Running During Failures? | daily.dev description: Graceful degradation is a design principle that allows systems to maintain essential functionality during failures by operating at reduced capacity rather than... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-keep-services-running-during-failures--nnovloy18 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Keep Services Running During Failures? | daily.dev og:description: Graceful degradation is a design principle that allows systems to maintain essential functionality during failures by operating at reduced capacity rather than... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-keep-services-running-during-failures--nnovloy18 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nnovLOY18.png og:image:alt: How to Keep Services Running During Failures? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Keep Services Running During Failures? **[Programming Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/programmingdigest)** · 5 min read · 56 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Graceful degradation is a design principle that allows systems to maintain essential functionality during failures by operating at reduced capacity rather than crashing completely. Key strategies include rate limiting to control traffic, request coalescing to reduce duplicate queries, load shedding to prioritize critical requests, retry mechanisms with jitter to prevent thundering herd problems, circuit breakers to isolate failing services, request timeouts to prevent resource exhaustion, and comprehensive monitoring with alerting for proactive issue detection. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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