Resiliency is the ability of an application to handle failure gracefully while availability is a measure of the amount of time the application is working. An application may have a collection of resources and still remain available if one of the resources becomes inoperable or unavailable.
If an application is designed to handle one or more resources failing without the entire system becoming inoperable, this is referred to as graceful degradation.
Patterns apply to both isolate the elements of an application as well as handle the interaction between the elements so that when a failure occurs, the impact is limited. Many of the resiliency-related patterns focus on the messaging between the components within the application or to other applications. The Bulkhead pattern, for example, isolates the traffic into pools so that when one pool becomes overwhelmed...
