Bulkhead - CI/CD Glossary Definition
The bulkhead pattern isolates resources, such as separate thread pools or connection pools per dependency, so that failure or saturation in one part of a system cannot consume all resources and take down the rest.
Origin
The name comes from ship bulkheads, which compartmentalize the hull so one flooded section does not sink the whole vessel.
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