Circuit breaker design pattern
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Circuit breaker is a design pattern used in software development. It is used to detect failures and encapsulates the logic of preventing a failure from constantly recurring, during maintenance, temporary external system failure or unexpected system difficulties. Circuit breaker pattern prevents cascading failures particularly in distributed systems.[1]
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Circuit breaker pattern should be used along with other patterns such as retry, fallback and timeout pattern. This helps the system to be more fault tolerant.[2]