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Akamai’s Approach to Resilience
akamai.com | 1 Akamai’s Approach to Resilience WHITE PAPER Updated August 4, 2022akamai.com | 2 Addendum: Power resiliency in Europe 3 Introduction 4 Design principles for resilience 4 Assume everything will break 4 Fault tolerance 5 Redundancy 5 Distributed algorithms and local decisioning 6 Component level resilience 6 Fault isolation 7 Automation and self-healing 7 Gr aceful degr adation, tr affic contr ol and scalability 8 Change safety 9 Layering of safeties 9 Visibility 10 Security model 10 Operational resilience 11 Conclusion 12 Table of Contentsakamai.com | 3 Addendum Power resiliency in Europe With the news of potential energy shortages across Europe, our customers have been expressin