Netflix “Resilience Engineering” FOSS Library and Security

Really powerful stuff (and to-read material):

• Netflix Open Sources “Resilience Engineering” Code Library  - news article
• Reddit thread about the article linked above
• Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System and Making the Netflix API More Resilient - detailed NetFlix blog posts
• Performance and Fault Tolerance for the Netflix API - August 2012 - speaker deck presentation
• Netflix / Hystrix - GitHub repo

Here is one of the diagrams presented:

What I really like about this architecture, is the fact that we (security) also want something like this (to make the application more robust and resilient)

In fact, if we (WebAppSec) helped companies to create/develop/test such systems (from a security point of view), we would stop being a TAX and would become a value-added (since just about all businesses care about the availability and reliability of their web apps)