Resilience: Hystrix
In this lesson, we'll look at resilience with Hystrix in detail.
We'll cover the following
Introduction #
With synchronous communication between microservices, it is important that the failure of one microservice does not cause other microservices to fail as well.
Otherwise, the unavailability of a single microservice can cause further microservices to fail until the entire system is no longer available.
The microservices may return errors because they cannot deliver reasonable results due to a failed microservice.
However, it must not happen that a microservice waits for the result of another microservice for an infinite period of time and thereby becomes unavailable itself.
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