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title: "Design Patterns and Principles That Support Large Scale Systems"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/design-patterns-and-principles-that-support-large-scale-systems-ep--fszyw
source_url: https://medium.com/everything-full-stack/design-patterns-and-principles-that-support-large-scale-systems-f3c9adf89ad
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source: "Community Picks"
published: 2022-09-30T13:27:09.323Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["design-patterns"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 31
comments: 0
language: en
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# Design Patterns and Principles That Support Large Scale Systems

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 31 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Circuit Breaker Circuit breaker is a borrowed term from the electricity domain. When a dependency is not reachable, all the requests to it will fail. This is a great use-case for Circuit breaker design pattern. The circuit-breaker will hold a state (open/close) and will refresh its state by retrying an actual call every interval of time.

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