Architecture
Graceful Degradation in Rust Services Under Heavy Load
A service that stays up by doing less beats one that tries to do everything and falls over. Decide in advance what to drop and how to say no quickly.
4 min read
Tag
resilience
3 posts
Concurrency
Async Retries Timeouts and Circuit Breakers in Rust Clients
Retries fix transient failures and amplify real outages. The right combination is a timeout per attempt, capped jittered backoff, a total deadline and a breaker that stops hammering.
8 min read
Architecture
Circuit Breakers and Bulkheads in Rust Service Clients
Stop one failing dependency from taking the whole service down. A circuit breaker fails fast after repeated errors and probes for recovery; a bulkhead caps concurrency per dependency. Implement both with Tokio.
5 min read