Derek Comartin • 6/24/2026

Resilience Patterns Can Make Your System Less Resilient

This article examines common resilience patterns like retries, circuit breakers, and fallbacks, arguing that they can actually make a system less resilient when used without understanding failure modes. Using a message broker and third-party API example, it shows how applying these patterns in the wrong context can increase load or hide underlying issues. The key insight is that resilience comes from understanding operational behavior, not just applying patterns or libraries. The article is relevant to software architecture, distributed systems, and IT best practices.

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