# How to make your services resilient to slow dependencies

DevFeed: [How to make your services resilient to slow dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-make-your-services-resilient-to-slow-dependencies-11626.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/how-to-make-your-services-resilient-to-slow-dependencies>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-04-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

This blog post explains how service dependencies can become sources of reliability problems and how applications can remain available and responsive when those dependencies are slow, unstable, or unavailable.

## Source excerpt

Our applications increasingly rely on services we don't control. What happens when those services become unreliable? This blog post explains how to build software that stays available and responsive, even if your dependencies aren't.