Resilient Service-to-Service Calls in a Post-Hystrix World

Explore resilient service-to-service communication strategies in a 49-minute conference talk from Devoxx Poland 2019. Delve into N26's journey to maintain fault tolerance and resilience in backend service calls following Netflix's announcement of Hystrix's discontinued development. Discover how the company seized this opportunity to reevaluate and consolidate their entire HTTP client resilience stack. Learn about the challenges faced in replacing Hystrix's comprehensive functionality, including circuit breaking, connection thread pool thresholds, fallback mechanisms, and response caching. Gain insights into developing a consistent and user-friendly approach to service-to-service communication resilience in modern distributed systems.

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