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Fallbacks allow systems to handle failures safely and maintain user experience.

Timeouts in distributed systems indicate suspicion, not confirmed failure.

A Circuit Breaker helps prevent system failures by stopping calls to unhealthy services.

Partial failure means some services fail while others keep running, impacting system reliability.

The Circuit Breaker pattern controls service calls to prevent failures from spreading.

Cascading failures occur when one service's failure impacts others, causing widespread issues.

The Transactional Outbox Pattern ensures database updates and event publishing are synchronized to avoid losing events.

The Bulkhead Pattern isolates resources to protect critical workloads from failures.

RPC allows one service to call a function in another service over the network.

Graceful shutdown in Kafka ensures no data loss during consumer termination.

A timeout indicates a deadline was exceeded, not necessarily a failure.