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Grokking Microservices Design Patterns
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The Bulkhead Pattern: A Solution

The essence of the Bulkhead pattern lies in isolation. Like the watertight compartments in a ship, the Bulkhead pattern partitions the components of a system into isolated units or 'bulkheads'. Each bulkhead is designed to operate independently of the others. So, if one bulkhead fails, the others can continue to function, thus preventing the failure from spreading across the system.

You can think of bulkheads as a form of 'failure containment'. By isolating different parts of the system, bulkheads limit the scope of any potential failures

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