Art of Distributed System Architecture Design

Jun 22, 2015 · Backend Development

Stability Patterns for Maintaining Network Reliability in Distributed Systems

This article explains five stability patterns—retry, timeout, circuit breaker, handshaking, and bulkhead—used to keep distributed systems resilient, illustrates their implementation with JAX‑RS/RESTful services in Java, and shows how asynchronous Java 8 techniques further improve reliability.