Node+JS Interactive

Node.js is known for it’s ability to provide fast responses, which makes it a perfect candidate for an orchestration layer. API failures happen to the best of us and the trick is to be prepared for them. Circuit breakers are a way to prevent upstream dependency issues from cascading down to your other microservices by providing a mechanism for fast fault detection. When this happens, the circuit breakers will trip, causing subsequent requests to the dependencies to respond with a failure status code before another request can be made. This allows you to handle your failed requests quicker, which results in a better overall user experience until the breaker can reset. This talk covers the relationship of circuit breakers to a typical microservices ecosystem as well as demonstrates the pros and cons of this approach.