Slide 28 · Sources & Further Reading
References for the concepts, patterns, and mitigations covered in this module.
A full formatted sources page is available from the link below. It includes primary sources for the OWASP ASI08 specification, circuit breaker and resilience pattern engineering references, chaos engineering documentation, and distributed systems failure research.
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Key references covered in this module
- OWASP Top 10 for LLM & Generative AI Applications — ASI08:2026 — Cascading Failures. The primary specification this module is based on.
- Nygard, M. — "Release It!" (2nd ed., 2018) — Pragmatic Programmer. The definitive reference for circuit breaker, bulkhead, and stability patterns in distributed systems. Chapter 5 (Stability Patterns) is directly applicable to agent pipeline design.
- Netflix Technology Blog — "Making the Netflix API More Resilient" (2011) — Original documentation of the Hystrix circuit breaker library and the cascading failure patterns it was designed to address.
- Brooker, M. — "Exponential Backoff and Jitter" (AWS Builder's Library, 2015) — Documents why pure exponential backoff is insufficient and how jitter prevents synchronized retry bursts.
- Basiri, A. et al. — "Chaos Engineering" (IEEE Software, 2016) — Academic documentation of the chaos engineering discipline pioneered at Netflix, including principles for designing resilience tests.
- NIST SP 800-204 — Security Strategies for Microservices-based Applications — Covers fault isolation, health monitoring, and resilience architecture for distributed systems — applicable to agent pipeline infrastructure.
- Google SRE Book — Chapter 22: Addressing Cascading Failures — Google's Site Reliability Engineering documentation of cascading failure patterns, load shedding, and graceful degradation strategies at scale.