The circuit breaker pattern can prevent an application from repeatedly trying an operation that is likely to fail. The circuit breaker wraps the calls to a service. It can handle faults that might take a variable amount of time to recover from when connecting to a remote service or resource. This can improve the stability and resiliency of an application.
The problem description—Remote connectivity is common in a distributed application. Due to a host of transient faults such as slow network speed, timeouts, the service unavailability, or the huge load on the service, calls to remote application services can fail. These faults, being transient, typically correct themselves after a short period of time. The retry pattern ...
