We are the Borg. Your messages have failed and will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Distributed systems are a lot like Star Trek’s infamous Borg Collective: massively parallel, highly interconnected, and sometimes, drones services go down or are inaccessible. After all, even with a galaxy-class architecture, things sometimes go wrong. Messages can fail due to transient errors, unexpected exceptions, or configuration hiccups. However, well-designed distributed systems take a stronger c...
