Detecting Slow Dependencies with Timeouts and Circuit Breakers
Detecting Slow Dependencies with Timeouts and Circuit Breakers

Detecting Slow Dependencies with Timeouts and Circuit Breakers

Author
Shiv Bade
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timeouts
circuit breaker
Published
August 3, 2017
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Slow responses often hurt more than failures.
How we improved UX: - Timeouts for all network calls - Circuit breakers for flapping endpoints - Synthetic monitors to spot degradation early