Netflix / Hystrix

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.
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Semaphore or Thread isolation strategy #1918

Open aarushijain21 opened 5 years ago

aarushijain21 commented 5 years ago

Why Semaphore isolation strategy is costly in less number of requests environment. If semaphore has capability to serve 500 rps of requests in less than a second then why not to use it always?