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What mechanism does a distributed system use to stop sending requests to a failing service to prevent cascading failures?



The mechanism used to stop sending requests to a failing service is called a Circuit Breaker. A circuit breaker acts as a proxy between a client and a service, monitoring the success and failure rate of requests to detect if a downstream system is unhealthy. It operates in three distinct states. In the Closed state, requests pass through normally to the service, and the breaker keeps track of failures. If the num....

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