Circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures in distributed systems. More details: https://microservices.io/patterns/reliability/circuit-breaker.html and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/circuit-breaker.

Circuit breaker implementations:

* https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j (Java)

* http://www.thepollyproject.org/ (.NET)

* https://github.com/rubyist/circuitbreaker (Go)

* https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/common/circuitbreaker.html (Scala/Akka)

* https://github.com/yammer/circuit-breaker-js (JavaScript)

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