taligent seems to be hellbanned. Here's his response:
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-it-Works
It's more than just aborting a request. It also handles caching with different fallback modes, collapsing multiple requests, monitoring and most importantly it provides a consistent model for handling service integration.
Probably not the most innovative thing in the world but definitely useful if you do have a large SOA system.
Weird, his post is showing up as not dead for me. Looking at his comment history, all of the comments since three days ago are dead except this one (which is the most recent at the moment).
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-it-Works It's more than just aborting a request. It also handles caching with different fallback modes, collapsing multiple requests, monitoring and most importantly it provides a consistent model for handling service integration. Probably not the most innovative thing in the world but definitely useful if you do have a large SOA system.