Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Using Spring Cloud Netflix – Hystrix

Throughout this chapter we have looked at all the aspects that apply to having a successful microservice application running in the cloud environment. We have learned about how to integrate better into a dynamically changing ecosystem, consuming remote configuration properties, registering service, and discovering and calling other services. In this recipe, we will take a look at another very important aspect of operating in a distributed, highly-volatile cloud environment circuit breakers.

The particular implementation of circuit breaker functionality which we are going to look at is Netflix Hystrix. It provides a very powerful and convenient way to annotate our service calls and handle things like remote ...