What is resilience in Spring microservices (Circuit Breaker pattern)?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Circuit breaker prevents cascading failures in distributed systems.

Using Resilience4j, requests are blocked when a service fails repeatedly, allowing recovery and fallback responses.

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