Recent Posts by Oliver Kamps

Topic: Release It! / 'Distributed' circuit breakers: co-ordinate or not?

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts so quickly on this.

Your reasoning makes a lot of sense to me; I was leaning in the same direction but hadn’t thought things through that far.

Cheers,
Oliver

Topic: Release It! / 'Distributed' circuit breakers: co-ordinate or not?

Hello everybody,

Assume a redundantly deployed component (e.g. the same EJB deployed to a number of Java EE server instances) has an integration point to an external system and I’d want to make this more robust using a Circuit Breaker. Would you have the different instances of the Circuit Breaker communicate with each other (i.e. if one flips open, they all do)? Or would this be overkill as they’d probably all flip open within a short period of time anyway if there’s a systemic problem?

Thanks a lot,

Oliver