Rob Berry
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Rob Berry
This is common practice at Netflix (see http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/12/making-netflix-api-more-resilient.html for example, but there's lots of stuff on their blogs). I think building it into the client, and having it turned on...
This explains the concept: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CircuitBreaker.html