StaffSignal

Design for Fault Tolerance

Design for Fault Tolerance — A Staff+ playbook focused on failure domain isolation, cascading failure prevention, retry budget ownership, and resilience as organizational discipline — not just Hystrix patterns.

This playbook is part of the full calibration library.

Staff interviews are decided on nuance — tradeoff framing, ownership boundaries, and failure anticipation. This topic includes evaluator-grade breakdowns and drill sections available with full calibration access.

What's inside this playbook

  • Staff-level tradeoff analysis and failure mode reasoning
  • L5 vs L6 calibration tables for this specific topic
  • Practice drills with Staff-level evaluation criteria
  • Deep-dive appendices and operational ownership patterns