Operational Resilience #

Operational resilience ensures systems keep delivering value during incidents, regional outages, and unexpected demand.

Pillars #

• reliability engineering and fault tolerance
• backup and disaster recovery
• incident response and post-incident learning
• capacity and dependency risk management

Articles in this section #

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Incident Response in DevOps Environments

Build-your-baseline checklist #

• tier services by criticality
• set RTO/RPO targets per tier
• run recovery drills at least quarterly
• maintain tested runbooks and on-call rotations
• enforce postmortems with corrective actions