Finally! After months of not writing a blog post, here it is: A GitHub Issue on the ASP.NET Core Docs points me to Polly CircuitBreaker. Which is really great. Before that, I didn't even know that circuit breakers is a term in the software industry. Actually, I implemented mechanisms that work like that but never called them circuit breakers. Maybe that's the curse of never having visited a university :-D http://www.thepollyproject.org/ What is a circuit breaker?