Hystrix

Circuit Breakers are one of the best tools in our toolbox to use while creating a backend structure with dependent modules. In this post, I will try to set up a basic Hystrix Circuit Breaker example and demonstrate some different configurations.

For demonstrating this concept I’ve created two Spring Boot applications called producer and consumer. The producer returns an integer counter and increases the value after each request but when the counter is between 5 and 20 it will wait for 5000 ms before returning the counter.