MRA, Part 6: Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern with NGINX Plus Author’s note – This blog post is the sixth in a series: Introducing the Microservices Reference Architecture from NGINX MRA, Part 2: The Proxy Model MRA, Part 3: The Router Mesh Model MRA, Part 4: The Fabric Model MRA, Part 5: Adapting the Twelve‑Factor App for Microservices MRA, Part 6: Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern with NGINX Plus (this post) I’ve also written a separate article about web frontends for microservices applications, and check out these other NGINX resources about microservices: A very useful and popular series by Chris Richardson about microservices application design The Chris Richardson articles collected into a free ebook, with additional tips on implementing microservices with NGINX and NGINX Plus Other microservices blog posts Microservices webinars Microservices application design has wrought a wholesale change in the way that applications function. In a microservices architecture, an “application” is now a [ more… ]