The document discusses building resilience into software systems. It defines resilience as the ability to recover from failures or adversity. Complex distributed systems are prone to failures due to their interconnected nature. To maximize availability, systems should be designed to minimize downtime after failures through resilient patterns like asynchronous communications, isolation, and failure containment. The presentation provides examples of how frameworks like Hystrix, Akka, Vertx, and Spring Boot can help implement resilience techniques in Java systems.