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Practical Site Reliability Engineering
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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

by Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Design patterns – circuit breaker

In this section, we will discuss the circuit breaker pattern. Before that, let's think about any microservice architecture in which one service is synchronously invoked by other services. What if one service breaks down? This could be due to high latency, a code issue, or limited resources. The failure of one service can lead to other services failing throughout the application. To manage this problem and prevent a cascading service failure, we can use a circuit breaker. This is more than a design pattern; we can think of it as a sustainable pattern, which means that it can help prevent our microservices from dying.

Everything fails, accept it! A circuit breaker can help us solve our problems.

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ISBN: 9781788839563