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Bulkhead - CI/CD Glossary Definition

The bulkhead pattern partitions a system’s resources - thread pools, connection pools - into isolated compartments per dependency, so a failure or saturation in one cannot starve the others, containing faults the way a ship’s bulkheads contain flooding.

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