Circuit breakers, retries, back-off. Monitoring, heartbeat detection, automated restarts when service is unhealthy. Here's a no-nonsense paper, and a lot can be

Circuit breakers, retries, back-off. Monitoring, heartbeat detection, automated restarts when service is unhealthy. Here's a no-nonsense paper, and a lot can be relevant to a smaller company too: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/hamilton/hamilton.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/...