The Cascading Failure That Took Down Everything Our payment service went down for 3...
The Cascading Failure That Took Down Everything
Our payment service went down for 3 minutes. No big deal, right? Except every service that called payments kept retrying. The retry storms consumed all available connections. Within 10 minutes, all 12 services were down.
3 minutes of one service failing became 45 minutes of total outage.
Circuit breakers prevent this.
How Circuit Breakers Work
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