
Implementing Circuit Breakers, Retries, and Timeouts Without Extra Drama
Let me be honest with you: if you’ve ever had a microservice call hanging indefinitely while your application slowly suffocates under thread exhaustion, you know the special kind of panic that follows. Your users are refreshing their browsers. Your alerts are screaming. Your coffee is getting cold. Nobody has time for that drama. The good news? Three resilience patterns can save you from this nightmare: circuit breakers, retries, and timeouts. And unlike the theatrical presentations you’ll see in some tutorials, implementing them is straightforward when you understand what each one actually does....



