Circuit breaker pattern

Microservices-based application design has wrought in a subtle and smart change in the way software applications are being designed, deployed, and delivered. Applications now become a dynamic collection of services that rely on each other to perform various tasks. Highly complicated and sophisticated applications are bound to involve a large number of interdependent microservices. More dependencies mean more complications and complexities. This pattern acquires prominence because it contributes immensely for avoiding cascading service failure. The idea of the pattern is to continuously monitor the application's microservices and the traffic flowing among them in order to prevent failures. When failures do happen, this pattern comes handy in minimizing the impact of those failures on the application. This pattern also attempts to prevent failure in...