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What is bulkhead pattern in microservices?

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The bulkhead pattern isolates resources (thread pools, connections, memory) into separate compartments so that a failure in one doesn't exhaust resources needed by others — similar to bulkheads in a ship that prevent water from flooding all compartments.…