Pilots have the flight deck, Captain Kirk had his bridge, but what do you have for managing failure in your application? Every app comes under stress, whether it's from downstream failures to unmaintainable high load to a spike in intensive requests. We'll cover code patterns you can use to change the behavior of your application on the fly to gracefully fail. You’ll walk away from this talk with tools you can have on hand to ensure you remain in control even when your application is under stress.