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rubyist/circuitbreaker

Circuit Breakers in Go observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/rubyist/circuitbreaker · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4430
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 840
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1164 stars · 112 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern for wrapping remote calls. It trips after failures, timeouts, consecutive failures, or error rates, and emits breaker events for monitoring.

Use cases

  • prevent cascading failures from slow remote calls
  • trip a breaker after N failed HTTP requests
  • add timeouts to remote calls that count as failures
  • trip based on consecutive failures
  • trip based on error rate over a sample window
  • monitor breaker state changes via events

When to choose

  • you make remote calls in Go and want fail-fast behavior
  • you need threshold, consecutive, or rate-based breaker strategies
  • you want breaker events for metrics and alerting

When to avoid

  • you need retries, backoff, and load balancing in one package
  • you're not using Go
  • you need a full service mesh or proxy-level resilience solution

Facets

library · maturity stable

middleware error-handling concurrency developer-tools microservices backend go circuit-breaker fault-tolerance resilience remote-calls rate-breaker

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