/hystrix-go-example

Circuit breaker in golang using hystrix-go

Primary LanguageGo

hystrix-go-example

this is an example of hystrix-go usage in web dev

Explanation

this example contains 2 service:

  1. alpha as our main service, circuit breaker are in place there

    • there are 2 api /ping-a and ping-b, both will do the same thing, with the only difference is,
    • /ping-a will not be using circuit breaker
    • /ping-b will be using circuit breaker

  2. zulu as our secondary/dummy service for external service

    • there is 1 api /ping that we will use as dummy endpoint

Scenario

  1. run service alpha
  2. hit one of alpha's endpoint
  3. alpha will call zulu's endpoint /ping
  4. zulu return x to alpha
  5. alpha return x to the requester

How to run:

  1. you need to run both separately
  2. run alpha from root folder
go run alpha/main.go
  1. run zulu from root folder
go run zulu/main.go

further explanation will be added