Fault Tolerance

Learn about fault tolerance, how to measure it, and its importance.

What is fault tolerance?

Real-world, large-scale applications run hundreds of servers and databases to accommodate billions of users’ requests and store significant data. These applications need a mechanism that helps with data safety and eschews the recalculation of computationally intensive tasks by avoiding a single point of failure.

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