Circuit Breaker Archives

Resilience4j: Getting Started with Circuit Breaker

February 27, 2023February 28, 2023JavaCircuit Breaker, resilience4j

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Resilience4j is a lightweight, easy-to-use fault tolerance library for Java 8 and functional programming. The Circuit Breaker is one of the main features provided by Resilience4j. It is used to stop cascading failures in a distributed system and provide fallback options. To get started with Circuit Breaker in Resilience4j, you will need to add the resilience4j-circuit breaker dependency to your project. Once the dependency Continue Reading

Circuit Breaker in microservices : Istio

June 30, 2021June 30, 2021Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, Studio-DevOps, Tech BlogsCircuit Breaker, Devops, istio, kubernetes, Microservices, springboot

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey guys,Today we’ll find out what circuit breakers are, why you should be using them in any distributed system or microservices architecture along with Istio. Why Circuit Breaker? We’ve got a series of microservices here that don’t have to be microservices ( in Kubernetes these will be pods, services, etc ). They’re going to be connected together in some way, a cascading failure is where Continue Reading

Resilience4j at a Glance

June 28, 2021July 1, 2021Microservicesbulkhead, Circuit Breaker, Microservices, Ratelimiter, resilience4j, springboot

Reading Time: 4 minutes Resilience4j at a Glance Scope of this article is applications based on microservice architecture. Let me begin with a question, what is most important non-functional requirement from any application? Undoubtedly the answer of this question will be ‘Robustness’. This means applications must behave reasonable with respect to adverse scenarios. Against all adverse scenarios application needs to take either corrective action or redirect to reasonable action Continue Reading

Lagom Circuit Breaker: What, Why and How?

June 15, 2017September 12, 2018Studio-ScalaCircuit Breaker, lagom

Reading Time: 5 minutes When our service depends on a third party service’s end point for response, it is possible that due to various reasons, that may vary from bad connection to an internal server error from the third party, our own service fails. A circuit breaker is employed to prevent cascading failures in our services if such scenarios were to occur. And if you are here, you are Continue Reading