Graceful Degradation
Domain: Software Engineering
🎯 Motivation
When something fails, the system continues to work with reduced functionality instead of crashing.
📋 Concrete Example
Graceful: API is down. Instead of crashing, the app shows cached data with a ‘Offline mode’ banner. Reduced functionality, but still usable. Better than a blank screen.
🔗 Analogy
Graceful degradation is like a restaurant running out of chicken - instead of closing, they offer beef and pork. Reduced menu, but still serving. The system degrades gracefully instead of failing completely.