Microservices Circuit Breaker: Preventing Cascading Failures by Stopping Calls to Failing Downstream Services
Microservices architectures improve delivery speed by splitting systems into independently deployable services. However, this same distribution increases failure risk. A single slow or failing downstream service can create a chain reaction: upstream services keep calling it, thread pools fill up, request queues grow, timeouts multiply, and eventually the whole system becomes unstable. This is known […]