Architectural Patterns
by Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Circuit breaker pattern
We all know that distributed computing is the way forward for new-generation businesses. Connectivity to remote services and resources is a core requirement in distributed computing environments. Remote connectivity has the habit of failure. That is, an application is trying to get connected with a remote service or data source and is not able to get access due to some transient fault, such as slow network connection, timeouts, the resources being overloaded, temporarily unavailable, and so on. These faults typically correct themselves after a short period of time, and a robust cloud application should be prepared to overcome these by using a well-drawn strategy, such as that described by the retry pattern.
However, ...
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