Circuit Breakers and Bulkheads — How to Stop One Slow Service From Burning Down Your System
One slow dependency can consume every thread in your gateway and take down a perfectly healthy API. This post breaks down the two patterns that contain the blast radius — circuit breakers and bulkheads — what each actually solves, why they're different, and how to wire both with Resilience4j.
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