Cloud Bits: Bulkhead Pattern – Isolate Failures and Sinkproof Your Services (opens in new tab)

Modern microservices have various integration points in form of external APIs, databases etc. In order to perform these integrations the service needs to maintain connections with these points & these connections tend to be costly. You need to perform authz/authn, do network handshakes(Eg TCP) & also some form of book-keeping around what connections are alive. So normally all applications tend to have a hard limit on number of such active connections & this is where we bring in our problem st...