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by rdli 3320 days ago
The thing you can do at the code level is integrate it with your exceptions and protect against software integration bugs. Imagine that your RPC against a new version of a service fails because of bad data. With a library level circuit breaker, you can catch the failed exception and blacklist the new version of the service. With the network level, your resolution of failure detection is more limited.