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What a circuit breaker does

What problem does a circuit breaker around calls to a flaky dependency solve?

A.It encrypts traffic between the two servicesB.It retries each failed call on another replica until one succeeds, hiding the failure from the callerC.After repeated failures it fails fast for a while, then lets a few trial calls throughD.It spreads requests evenly across replicas of the dependency

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