A circuit breaker could prematurely cut off all requests to a service, even if only one shard was failing.

They only circuit break retries ?

If a single node is down, then it should not receive traffic via k8s or whatever you use to route based on liveness probe.

Why does your software need to retry anyways? I prefer not implementing live retries, stuff breaks sometimes. Tasks will retry themselves.

You can circuit break the connection to other services so that you stop contacting them if they are down. Giving them some breathing room.

The Wikipedia implem looks simple and good enough to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_breaker_design_pattern

Indie labels still allow ugly people on stage!

Pop / major label’s job is more on the money side than the music. We don’t see ugly people in adverts either.

Posted in 1995, for those wondering if educating stakeholders works…

And maybe the fact that you have to continue until the gun actually fires :|