Designing a distributed circuit breaker in Golang
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One of the major problems of designing a webhook delivery system is designing around bad/zombie endpoints. Zombie endpoints are dead endpoints that fail continuously and, over time, clog up your queues, create back pressure, and delay event delivery to legitimate webhook endpoints. Circuit breakers are the best-known mechanism for dealing with unreliable HTTP API endpoints, preventing failures from upstream services from cascading into our system.
One of the major problems of designing a webhook delivery system is designing around bad/zombie endpoints. Zombie endpoints are dead endpoints that fail continuously and, over time, clog up your queues, create back pressure, and delay event delivery to legitimate webhook endpoints. Circuit breakers are the best-known mechanism for dealing with unreliable HTTP API endpoints, preventing failures from upstream services from cascading into our system.