Nice article. Anyone reading this may be interested in the related concept of the 'circuit breaker' technique employed by things such as Hystrix (Netflix), to

Nice article. Anyone reading this may be interested in the related concept of the 'circuit breaker' technique employed by things such as Hystrix (Netflix), to avoid getting into this state. Not a solution per se, but the simple philosophy is to set yourself up to fail fast: when back pressure reaches some threshold the 'circuit opens' and your servers immediately respond to new requests with an error, instead of ingesting huge numbers of requests which flood your internal queues or overload your infrastructure. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/Netflix/Hystrix/images/hystrix-flow-chart-original.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/Netflix/Hystrix/image...