# Three serverless reliability risks you can solve today using Failure Flags

DevFeed: [Three serverless reliability risks you can solve today using Failure Flags](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/three-serverless-reliability-risks-you-can-solve-today-using-failure-flags-11730.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/three-serverless-reliability-risks-you-can-solve-today-using-failure-flags>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-10-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Failure Flags](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/failure-flags.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [AWS Lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-lambda.md>)

Tags: [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [failure-flags](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/failure-flags.md>), [gremlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gremlin.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains that serverless platform providers manage the reliability of the cloud, while developers remain responsible for the reliability of their application code and configuration. It presents common serverless risks involving resource limits, scaling, redundancy, dependency failures, DNS failures, and user experience, then introduces Gremlin Failure Flags as a code-level fault injection solution using SDKs, code flags, and a sidecar container or Lambda layer.

## Source excerpt

Just because your app is serverless doesn't mean you don't need to think about reliability. Learn three of the top causes of serverless failures--and how to prevent them--in our latest blog.