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Circuit Breakers and Backpressure
A circuit breaker stops calling a dependency that is already failing, so one sick service does not drag down everything that depends on it. Backpressure is the upstream half of the same fight: when a downstream cannot keep up, you signal callers to slow down or shed load instead of piling work into an unbounded queue.
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