Ono Yuichi
2016-07-24He is a LINE engineer.
Hello, my name is Ono and I'm a LINE engineer. In this blog post, I'd like to talk about "circuit breakers" which we use with our LINE servers.
What is a Circuit Breaker?
The backend server systems for various web services and apps including LINE consist of networks that have several services connected with each other through APIs and RPCs.
What would happen if one of these networks suddenly failed to respond? The downed services would be blocked until they time-out, and all other services that