Adaptive Reliability Contracts for Microservices in Unpredictable Traffic Environments
Keywords:
Adaptive Reliability Contracts, Microservices Resilience, Policy-Based Adaptation, Service Mesh, Observability, Self-Adaptive SystemsAbstract
Microservices-based systems operate in environments where traffic patterns fluctuate, resources vary, andservice dependencies change continuously. Under these conditions, reliability becomes difficult tomaintain using static configurations. Timeout values, retry policies, circuit breakers, and load-shedding thresholds are typically tuned for expected operating conditions
References
Tania Duggal, "Techniques for handling failure scenarios in microservice architectures," Cerbos, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/handling-failures-in-microservice-architectures


