Circuit Breaker on concurrency

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Circuit Breaker on failure rate

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Circuit Breaker on number of failures in time window

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Circuit Breaker on consecutive failures

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The Circuit Breaker Pattern

I don't remember where I first heard about the circuit breaker pattern but I had seen it a few times in a few different forms under different names. Over time I have come to believe that the original approach described to me might not be the most appropriate.

2013 statistics

Since I decided to move the blog during 2013 the statistics for 2013 are split between two sites and I'll do this a little different than last year.