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Let’s talk about the sidecar pattern. Named after the device that attaches to a bicycle or motrocycle, this architectural pattern describes components of applications that are independent from a main application that have access to the same resources and support the main application much like the vehicular sidecar. Vehicular sidecars were originally invented to allow for safely carrying an additional passenger. Design pattern sidecars in some ways provide support of an “additional passenger” through isolating the different components that may be designed and architected by different teams, for example when a development teams works on an application, and an SRE team works on the monitoring for that application.

There are many infrastructure design patterns. In this post, I want to dig into the circuit breaker pattern. This pattern’s name comes from electrical engineering and circuit breakers. Circuit Breakers in Electrical Engineering The power company delivers electricity to your home at a constant voltage (that varies depending on your country of residence). Voltage is the measurement of the force that pushes electrons through the circuit. Current is the rate of flow of the electrons.