Spring 5.0 By Example

Hystrix in a nutshell

Hystrix is a library that helps developers to manage interactions between services. The project is open source, maintained by the community, and is under the Netflix GitHub.

The Circuit Breaker pattern is a pattern that helps to control the system integrations. The idea is quite simple: we will wrap the remote call in a function or object, and we will monitor these calls to keep track of the failures. If the calls reach the limit, the circuit will open. The behavior is like that of an electrical circuit breaker, and the idea is the same—protect something to avoid breaking the electrical system:

Hystrix implements the ...