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Fault-Tolerant Microservices with Netflix Hystrix
Fault-Tolerant Microservices with Netflix Hystrix

This is our second article on patterns for Microservices based systems. See also our previous article on (Micro)service Discovery using Netflix Eureka. This article introduces Hystrix, an open-source Java library from Netflix. Hystrix is a production-ready implementation of the Circuit Breaker - pattern for reducing the impact of failure and latency in distributed systems.