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Introduction to the Circuit Breaker Pattern

Consider that you’re running a web service that requires input and delivers it to another backend service.

Let’s think about a situation where a request goes to a middleware application and you need to call another remote backend service. If everything goes fine and smooth, the application can forward the request to the backend service and send the response back to the client.

The next few requests from the client also try to call the backend service and fail.