Distributed Circuit Breaker with Redis and MongoDB: A Practical Resilience Pattern

A practical pattern for preventing cascading failures, coordinating state across replicas, and serving controlled fallbacks. By Reshma Thakkallapelly · 7–9 minute read A slow or unavailable dependency should not be allowed to consume every thread, connection, and retry budget in a microservices platform. I built a distributed circuit-breaker layer that uses Redis for fast shared […]