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What is a circuit breaker, and how is it different from a bulkhead?
Tests whether you know a circuit breaker stops calls to a failing dependency entirely, while a bulkhead isolates resources (thread pools/connections) per dependency so one slow call can't exhaust capacity needed by unrelated calls -- they solve different failure modes and are often used together.
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