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How would you explain the potential consequence of not using Circuit Breakers in an interview?
Track: Java
Topic: Distributed Resilience
Focus: Circuit Breakers
Java: Circuit Breakers
Answer
It can lead to resource exhaustion and cascading failures.
Without Circuit Breakers, failing services can cause threads to block indefinitely, leading to resource exhaustion and cascading failures. For instance, if a product search service goes down, any part of the system relying on it may also crash, affecting the entire e-commerce platform.
Without Circuit Breakers, failing services can cause threads to block indefinitely, leading to resource exhaustion and cascading failures. For instance, if a product search service goes down, any part of the system relying on it may also crash, affecting the entire e-commerce platform.
Topics: Circuit Breakers Distributed Resilience Java