Hands-On Design Patterns with Java

Use case

Systems that have a high volume of method calls that are susceptible to failure can benefit from using the circuit-breaker design pattern. These failures can be caused by intermittent access, timeouts, and so on. In order to implement the circuit-breaker pattern, we encase a method or a set of functionality in a circuit breaker. The next diagram illustrates this approach:

Circuit breaker design pattern—overview

This design pattern can help systems achieve the resilient component of reactive design patterns.

This section provided an overview of the circuit-breaker reactive design pattern.