we're utilizing something called the circuit breaker pattern, which is very similar to how you would have your electrical outlets in your house, and if you plug too many into one outlet, it's only going to take down that string of outlets. It's not going to take down the entire house because it's going to trigger one circuit. Same concept for applications
— John Rzeszotarski · KeyOps: An Operations Story, London 2018 · at 11:09