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What is the Circuit Breaker pattern? How do you implement it and set thresholds?
Tests whether you describe the CLOSED/OPEN/HALF-OPEN state machine and can articulate why thresholds (failure rate %, minimum call count, wait duration in open state) must be tuned to the downstream's actual failure characteristics, not left at arbitrary defaults.
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