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Istio is an open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. Istio’s powerful features provide a uniform and more efficient way to secure, connect, and monitor services.

As distributed systems become increasingly popular, the reliability between services is becoming more important than ever before.

Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.

Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions. It's made specifically to work in testing, CI and development environments, supporting deterministic tampering with connections, but with support for randomized chaos and customization.

Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.

A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.

Eureka is a RESTful (Representational State Transfer) service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for the purpose of discovery, load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers. It plays a critical role in Netflix mid-tier infra.

This book, The Accidental CTO, is my behind-the-scenes account of that journey. It’s not a dry academic manual filled with abstract diagrams.