[ignoramous]

> This allows you to have a sustained outage while making sure...

Re-driving queue backlogs at services recovering from sustained outages ends in tears almost always. Tread carefully. :)

[jrockway]

Typically people use two pools for circuit breaking, with the limit set lower on retries: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overv...