Timeout & Circuit Breaker Comparison

Contrast Vulnerable vs Circuit-Breaker Protected architectures side-by-side in real-time.

t = 0.0s

Speed Seed

Preset Scenarios

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Service B latency 100ms

Service B error rate 0%

Service A timeout 800ms

Service A threads 15

Retry attempts

Client traffic 20 rps

Gateway threads 30

request success retry failure

Architecture	Success	Latency	DB Q/s	GW Th	SA Th

Architecture	Breaker	Health status

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Saturation

Tiny dots on Gateway & Service A boxes show thread pool utilization.

Contrast

Observe how Protected breaker trips, protecting Gateway threads.