# Circuit breaker

Term `circuit-breaker`. Stateful policy stops attempts against an unhealthy operation and later probes recovery.

Practitioner: Nygard. Read in: *Release It!*, §5.2 Circuit Breaker.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Nygard, Michael T. *Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software*. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007. [Link](https://archive.org/details/releaseitdesignd0000nyga). ([b4-release-it](/bibliography#b4-release-it))