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What is the Circuit Breaker pattern? Explain Open, Closed, and Half-Open states.

Tests whether you know how a circuit breaker stops hammering a failing downstream service and how it decides to retry.

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What is the Circuit Breaker pattern? Explain Open, Closed, and Half-Open states.

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