Hystrix Integration - kanuku/misc GitHub Wiki

Advantages

Helps achieve low latency and fault tolerance by:

• Stopping cascading failures.
• Providing fallbacks and graceful degradation.
• Failing fast and recovering rapid.

Realtime Operations

• Realtime monitoring and configuration changes.
• Service and property changes take effect immediately as they spread across a fleet.
• Alerting mechanism
• See results from changes in seconds.

Thread and semaphore isolation with circuit breakers.

Commands

When to use the HystrixCommand?

Construct a HystrixCommand object if the dependency is expected to return a single response.

When to use the HystrixObservableCommand?

Construct a HystrixObservableCommand object if the dependency is expected to return an Observable that emits responses.