If there are failures in your Microservice ecosystem, then you need to fail fast by opening the circuit. This ensures that no additional calls are made to the failing service, once the circuit breaker is open. So we return an exception immediately. This pattern also monitor the system for failures and once things are back to normal, the circuit is closed to allow normal functionality.
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