Su San Talks Tech

Aug 3, 2023 · Backend Development

Unlocking Sentinel: Deep Dive into Alibaba’s Flow Control Engine

This article revisits Alibaba’s open‑source Sentinel, explaining its core concepts, resource and rule definitions, demonstrating basic and Spring‑integrated demos, and dissecting the internal processor slots and flow‑control mechanisms that enable traffic shaping, circuit breaking, and system protection in microservice architectures.