An implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern prevents an application from attempting an operation that is likely to fail, acting much like the circuit breaker for the electrical system in a house The circuit breaker acts like a proxy for the application when invoking operations that may fail, particularly where the failure is long lasting.… Read More »
If your application experiences a short-lived, temporary (or transient) failure connecting to an external service, it should transparently retry the failed operation. The most common example of this type of transient failure is connecting to a database that is overloaded and responding to new connection requests by refusing the connection(A website retrying to connect with… Read More »
When a website returns a 503 Service Unavailable status to a client, it is typically informing the browser that it is overloaded. This is an example of throttling in action. The throttling pattern quickly responds to increased load by restricting the consumption of resources by an application instance, a tenant, or an entire service so… Read More »