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What is the Circuit Breaker pattern, and why do retries alone make an outage worse?
Tests whether you know unbounded retries against a struggling downstream amplify load exactly when it can least absorb it, and that a circuit breaker's open state stops calling it entirely for a cooldown window so it gets room to recover.
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