Circuit breaker design pattern

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(For the overload protection device in electrical circuits, see Circuit breaker.)

A design pattern that stops failures from propagating in a microservice architecture.

Projects

• Hystrix
• Resilience4j

See also

• Software design pattern
• MSA
• Fault tolerance
• Service mesh

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) Circuit breaker design pattern
• Circuit Breaker pattern - Cloud Design Patterns | Microsoft Docs
• Applying Circuit Breakers to a distributed service environment