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José da Cruz

Enterprise Architect, and Life Thinker

José da Cruz

Enterprise Architect, and Life Thinker

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The Circuit Breaker Pattern: How to Stop One Failing Service from Taking Down Everything Else

josedacruz, August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

TL;DR: A circuit breaker stops your system from calling a service that’s already struggling, so one slow dependency doesn’t drag down everything connected to it. It works by watching for failures, “tripping” to block calls once things get bad, and then carefully testing whether the dependency has recovered before letting…

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Event-Driven (Mediator) Architecture (3 of 3)

josedacruz, June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

Event-Driven Architecture – Mediator Topology

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Event-Driven Architecture (2 of 3) – Broker Topology

josedacruz, June 27, 2023

Event-Driven Architecture (2 of 3) – Broker Topology

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Microservices Architecture

josedacruz, June 25, 2023

Microservices Architecture

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Service Based Architecture

josedacruz, June 24, 2023

Service Based Architecture

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Layered Architecture

josedacruz, June 21, 2023June 21, 2023

Layered Architecture, AKA n-tiered

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