Hystrix
Latency and Fault Tolerance for Distributed Systems
Defend your app with Hystrix, a latency and fault tolerance library developed by the Netflix API team. It works by isolating points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, thereby stopping cascading failure and providing fallback options, and making complex distributed systems more resilient in cases where failure is inevitable.
In a distributed environment, failure is simply inevitable for some service dependencies. With Hystrix you can control the interactions...