Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Combining the circuit pattern and the retry pattern

As software designers, we understand the importance of gracefully handling application failures and failure operations. We may achieve better results by combining the retry pattern and the circuit breaker pattern as it provides the application with greater flexibility in handling failures.

The retry patterns enable the application to retry failed operations, expecting those operations to become operational and eventually succeed. However, it may result in a denial of service (DoS) attack within our application. The circuit-breaker pattern prevents an application from performing an operation that's likely to fail. How about an intelligent retry mechanism that's sensitive to any failures returned ...