What is Hysterix?
Hystrix is a fault-tolerant library that helps manage the interactions between distributed services. It isolates access points to remote systems, services, and third-party libraries, preventing cascading failures in complex distributed architectures where failures are unavoidable. Hystrix provides a set of tools and techniques to build resilience into these systems, enabling them to gracefully handle failures, avoid service outages, and maintain overall system stability even when one or more components experience issues. The library employs strategies such as circuit breakers, fallbacks, and request caching to protect applications from the negative impacts of latency, timeouts, and other failures, ensuring a reliable and efficient user experience
Highlights
- Isolates access points to remote systems, services, and third-party libraries
- Prevents cascading failures in complex distributed architectures
- Enables resilience in systems where failures are inevitable
- Employs circuit breakers, fallbacks, and request caching
- Protects applications from negative impacts of latency, timeouts, and other failures
- Maintains overall system stability during component failures