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Circuit Breaker
Circuit Breaker Pattern
Definition
The Circuit Breaker pattern prevents cascading failures in distributed systems by detecting when a downstream service is failing and stopping calls to it for a defined period. When the circuit is 'open', calls fail fast instead of hanging and exhausting thread pools.
This pattern, popularized by Netflix Hystrix, is fundamental to building resilient microservice architectures.
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