Implementing Fallbacks and Timeouts

In this lesson, we'll dive into two crucial patterns for building resilient microservices: Fallbacks and Timeouts.

These patterns help your applications gracefully handle failures and slow responses from other services, making your system more robust and reliable.

A fallback mechanism provides an alternative course of action when a primary operation fails or encounters an error.

• It ensures your application can still respond, even if partially, instead of completely failing.
• Think of it as a plan B for your service calls.
• This leads to graceful degradation, where the system provides reduced functionality rather than total failure.