# Circuit Breaker Pattern / Availability of Degraded Dependency

> "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.

Record: `tension:availability-of-degraded-dependency-circuit-breaker-pattern`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-availability-of-degraded-dependency-circuit-breaker-pattern

## tensions-with

- [Circuit Breaker Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/circuit-breaker-pattern.md)
- [Availability of Degraded Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/availability-of-degraded-dependency.md)