Break Our Application Like a Server (Part I)

Errors do not always happen from user-initiated actions—different processes and tools can fail on the server. Our application may experience network disconnections between servers, database slowness or downtime, and crashed processes due to bugs or a large amount of work. It’s nearly impossible to consider everything that can go wrong in an application, so we often won’t realize that there is a problem with failure handling until it’s too late. We can simulate many issues locally and in staging environments before experiencing them in production.

This lesson will test what happens to our application during database downtime and when different processes crash on the server. We’ll utilize the observer tool that ships with Erlang/OTP to ...