Circuit Breaker Pattern / Availability of Degraded Dependency
Kind: tension
Record: tension:availability-of-degraded-dependency-circuit-breaker-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"circuit-breaker-pattern" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Availability of Degraded Dependency" (correctness-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Availability of Degraded Dependency" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Timeout Pattern / Slow Operation Tolerance and before Bulkhead Pattern / Resource Utilization.