Circuit Breaker Pattern Explained: How to Prevent Cascading Failures in Distributed Systems

What happens when one service fails, but your entire system keeps calling it anyway ? Imagine your payment service is down. Normally, every purchase request follows a path like this: User ↓ Order Service ↓ Payment Service ↓ Bank Now the Payment Service is unavailable — or perhaps it’s simply extremely slow. A request that normally takes 200 ms now... Weiterlesen