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How does Spring Boot handle graceful degradation in microservices?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Graceful degradation ensures partial functionality when dependencies fail.
Deep explanation
Spring Boot uses patterns like circuit breakers, fallback methods, caching stale data, and timeout policies to maintain service availability even when downstream services fail.
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