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Fault Tolerance: Timeouts, Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads, Backpressure and Graceful Degradation
How one slow dependency takes down a whole system, and the techniques that stop it: timeouts and deadlines, retry budgets, circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting, load shedding, backpressure and graceful degradation, with a runnable circuit breaker and a degradation plan for a real page.