Posts tagged “grpc”

Tiny explainers grouped by topic. Spend less time Googling, more time building.

Circuit Breakers & Bulkheads, Explained — fail fast, contain blast radius

Real-world settings and copy‑paste snippets for circuit breakers (closed/open/half‑open) and bulkheads (bounded concurrency/queues). Works with HTTP, gRPC, and message calls.

September 23rd, 2025

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Timeouts, Retries, and Backoff — the practical playbook

Design request deadlines, hop timeouts, and idempotent retries with jitter so you protect upstreams, tame tail latency, and avoid cascading failures.

September 11th, 2025

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