Circuit Breaker Pattern Architect

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• ▸Design circuit breaker thresholds and state machine logic for microservices calling external APIs
• ▸Implement bulkhead isolation patterns to prevent cascading failures across service dependencies
• ▸Configure retry policies with exponential backoff that complement circuit breaker behavior
• ▸Design fallback hierarchies for graceful service degradation during partial outages
• ▸Create chaos engineering experiments to validate circuit breaker effectiveness under failure conditions

What you'll get

• ●State machine configuration with specific failure thresholds, open-state duration, and half-open probing strategy based on traffic patterns
• ●Bulkhead sizing recommendations with thread pool allocation per dependency and connection pool isolation strategy
• ●Comprehensive fallback hierarchy design with primary/secondary/cache fallback paths and graceful degradation levels

Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 books, 4 official docs, 1 industry frameworks)

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