GK Question

technology medium mcq

Which pattern isolates failures in microservices to prevent cascading outages?

  1. Circuit Breaker
  2. API Gateway
  3. Service Mesh
  4. Load Balancer

Answer: Circuit Breaker

Circuit Breaker stops requests to failing services temporarily, allowing recovery. Prevents cascading failures in distributed systems. Implemented in resilience libraries. Critical for building fault-tolerant architectures.

Topic Software Architecture
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