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One microservice becomes very slow and others start timing out. How do you stop cascading failure?

Tests whether you name bulkheads (isolating thread/connection pools per dependency) and circuit breakers together -- so slowness in one dependency can't consume the thread pool shared by calls to other, healthy dependencies.

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