Concept#Reliability#Architecture
Graceful Degradation
Graceful degradation is an architectural principle that designs systems to preserve core functionality under partial failure or high load while sacrificing nonessential features. It increases fault tolerance and enables controlled degraded operating modes instead of total outages. Applicable across user interfaces, services, and distributed platforms.
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