Microservices·Microservices essentials

Resilience

Timeouts, retries and circuit breakers contain failure.

Advanced 10 min read Lesson 4 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Set timeouts.
  • Retry with jitter.
  • Open circuits on repeated failure.

In plain English

Timeouts, retries and circuit breakers contain failure.

  • Set timeouts.
  • Retry with jitter.
  • Open circuits on repeated failure.
resilience.jsJavaScript
const controller = new AbortController()
setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), 2000)
fetch(url, { signal: controller.signal })
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