BreakerMachines: Shield Your Microservices from Cascading Failures

In the world of microservices, cascading failures and retry storms are nightmares for developers. BreakerMachines, a Ruby library, acts as a guardian, protecting your system from these disasters using a sophisticated circuit breaker mechanism. Built on the battle-tested state_machines gem, it offers classic and Fiber modes, supports asynchronous operations, and provides flexible configuration options to adjust thresholds and timeouts based on service criticality and traffic. BreakerMachines effectively prevents cascading failures and helps quickly locate problems through visual dashboards and smart alerts, thus improving system stability and reliability.