Circuit Breaker Anti-Patterns: When Protection Causes Outages
Circuit breakers prevent cascading failures but wrong config makes them worse. I show 5 anti-patterns: shared breakers, wrong thresholds, instant open, no fallback, and testing gaps.
#resilience
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Circuit Breaker vs Rate Limiter vs Bulkhead: When to Use Which Pattern
Three resilience patterns that are often confused. I'll show exactly when each prevents cascading failures and when it makes things worse with real metrics.
gRPC Deadline Propagation: Preventing Cascading Failures
Frontend gives up after 5s but backend keeps working for 30s. Without deadline propagation, you waste resources on doomed requests. I show how to implement it in Go.