Circuit Breakers, Hystrix, And Dealing With Failing Back Ends
When you are writing middleware (be it SOAP services, REST APIs, or something else) an important point to realize is that *Back Ends Fail*. They fail in strange and interesting ways. Code for talking to back ends should always be robust: it should never make a call without some timeout …
Posted Wed 23 July 2014 by mcherm in Programming, Technology