Lexicon

Partial Availability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:partial-availability

Canonical: Lexicon

The condition in which a system continues serving a subset of its functions while some components are unavailable.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Ordering and before Performance.

Category

  • Quality Attributes

Enabled by

  • Graceful Degradation
  • Fallback Pattern

Linked from

  • Error Handling / Resilience