Let's quickly revisit the state diagram for a circuit breaker from Chapter 8, Introduction to Spring Cloud, in the Resilience4j for improved resilience section:
The key features of a circuit breaker are as follows:
- If a circuit breaker detects too many faults, it will open its circuit, that is, not allow new calls.
- When the circuit is open, a circuit breaker will perform fast failure logic. This means that it doesn't wait for a new fault, for example, a timeout, to happen on subsequent calls. Instead, it directly redirects the call to a fallback method. The fallback method can apply various business logic to ...
