Category: NodeJs
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Breaking the Loop: Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Node.js with Fastify
If you’ve ever built an app that talks to other services—an API, a database, or a third-party provider—you’ve probably faced this: Everything works fine until that external service slows down… or worse, goes offline. Suddenly your app is stuck, retrying requests that will never succeed. Users wait forever. Your logs explode. Your server eats CPU…