If there's one thing that's certain when you're building distributed applications, is that, sooner or later, something will break. The only remaining question: is your application ready for it?

Be it a network hiccup, a server going down mid process, or an API client making the same request repeatedly, there isn't a lack of opportunity for things to go south.

With this talk, I hope to get you to think about the resilience of your applications, go through a bunch of scenarios to remind you that failure is always an option, as well as discuss strategies to be ready for the chaos that is inherent to distributed systems.