Bulkhead Pattern: Isolate Failures, Protect Your System
The Bulkhead pattern partitions a system like a ship's hull, containing failures to prevent a total outage. By isolating resource pools for each service or consumer, a fault in one component won't cascade and take down the entire application.
The Bulkhead pattern borrows its name from naval architecture: it partitions an application into isolated pools so a failure in one section doesn't cascade and sink the entire system. This prevents resource exhaustion from spreading. It's used to isolate consumers from services and services from each other, for example, by giving each downstream service its own connection pool or deploying separate service instances for different clients.
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