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Yeah, I don't think circuit breakers are really the appropriate choice in most of the situations the article is describing. Rate limiting and backpressure seem like better options most of the time.

The way I see it, circuit breakers are safety devices. They're for when you need to keep a system in a safe control region and are wiling to sacrifice some reliability in order to achieve that. e.g. preventing customers from accidentally turning your globally distributed whatever into a DDOS platform or limiting the blast radius when infrastructure automation decides it should delete everything.