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by andor 27 days ago
By the logic of the article, a circuit breaker for the DB query would act as a fallback for the fallback. A path that would be executed in production even less frequently, and which would be more difficult to test for its effectiveness. Surely, you can test whether the circuit breaker is triggered, but would it reduce DB load enough to keep the fulfillment system running?