Bulkhead
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What is Bulkhead?
The Bulkhead pattern is a type of application design that is tolerant of failure. In a bulkhead architecture, elements of an application are isolated into pools so that if one fails, the others will continue to function. It's named after the sectioned partitions (bulkheads) of a ship's hull. If the hull of a ship is compromised, only the damaged section fills with water, which prevents the ship from sinking.
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- Queue-Based Load Leveling
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- Leader Election
- Federated Identity
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Bulkhead: common questions
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Is this Bulkhead tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 129 of 147 in the free System Design roadmap, in stage 27, Security. If you are new to System Design, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.