# Failure isolation

Term `failure-isolation`. Limit the damage one failing subsystem can inflict on independently useful work.

Practitioner: James Edward Gray II, Bruce A. Tate. Read in: *Designing Elixir Systems with OTP*, Big, Loud Worker-Bees: Isolation.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Gray II, James Edward; Tate, Bruce A. *Designing Elixir Systems with OTP*. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2019. [Link](https://pragprog.com/titles/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-with-otp/). ([b3-designing-elixir-systems-with-otp](/bibliography#b3-designing-elixir-systems-with-otp))