I have observed that Hystrix treats all exceptions coming out of commands as failures for circuit breaking purposes. It includes exceptions which are thrown from command run () method and created b...

I'm looking for ways to make remote calls to services out of my control until a connect is successful. I also don't want to simply set a timer where an action gets executed every n seconds/minutes ...

I have a shared external resource (say a file store) which a pool of actors is using. Each time a new request is made to the file store a new actor is created to fill the request with a reference t...

I've got a mid-size elasticsearch index (1.46T or ~1e8 docs). It's running on 4 servers which each have 64GB Ram split evenly between elastic and the OS (for caching). I want to try out the new &qu...

The Circuit Breaker pattern, from the book Release It!, protects a remote service from requests while it is failing (or recovering) and helps the client manage repeated remote service failure. I li...

Possible Duplicate: Why can’t I catch a generic exception in C#? I have been reviewing and writing Circuit Breaker code recently. The following method compiles, but the catch bloc...