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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by lwansbrough on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @04:26PM (#18759279)
The post uses the term “bulwark” - this is the first time I’ve heard of that. Is it any different than a mutex or semaphore?
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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by SlowRobotAhead on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @07:30PM (#18759799)
It’s pretty much a semaphore, except that the author seems to tie it in with a Request Volume Threshold that prevents a number of attempts per time as well as a total number here, which is interesting to me where I have an application that will go from phone app to server and hadn’t considered the difference.

That 10 connections is different from 10 instant connections.

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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by sokoloff on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @05:44PM (#18759487)
Bulwark is a non-CS term. Comes from military/nautical origin, a defensive barrier or the extension of the sides of a ship above the top deck.
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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by oweiler on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:58AM (#18761179)
The probably more commonly used term is Bulkhead.
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