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Circuit Breaker Pattern Basics

Fail fast to protect systems

Circuit breakers track failure rates to open and block calls to unhealthy services, serve fallbacks, then half-open to test recovery before closing, reducing cascading failures.

Detect

Track errors/timeouts and open when thresholds exceed.

Fallback

Serve cached/default responses or errors quickly while open.

Recover

Half-open with limited probes; close when healthy.

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