Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breakers, Retries & Timeouts
Keep distributed systems healthy under failure with timeouts, bounded retries with backoff, and the circuit breaker pattern to prevent cascading outages.
Failure Is Normal
In a microservices network, calls cross machines and links that will fail. Resilience patterns keep one slow or broken service from dragging down the whole system.
Always Set Timeouts
A call with no timeout can hang forever, exhausting threads and connections. Every remote call must have a deadline.
import requests
r = requests.get('http://orders/api', timeout=2.0)All lessons in this course
- Load Balancing Strategies
- Service Mesh Architectures (Istio/Linkerd)
- API Gateway & Edge Routing
- Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breakers, Retries & Timeouts