Problem Statement: One of our Microservice (say X) is dependent on a third party service (say Y) for its functionality. We observed when the service Y became unhealthy every request from X involving a call to Y increased response time as the service X kept on calling the service Y repeatedly without handling the failures that were happening . Application X’s threads were busy processing high response requests which led to an increase in CPU usage and a decrease in the number of free threads to process other requests which eventually led to service becoming unresponsive on production and further leading ...