Node.js Circuit Breaker Pattern in Production...

Node.js Circuit Breaker Pattern in Production: Prevent Cascading Failures with Opossum Your payment service starts timing out at 3am. Every inbound request to your checkout API fires an HTTP call to the payment provider — and each one hangs for 30 seconds before failing. Your Node.js event loop isn't blocked in the traditional sense, but your promise queue fills with pending async operations. Connection pool slots get consumed. Memory climbs. Eventually, request queuing kicks in at the load bala