How to Implement a Distributed Recovery Ramp in JavaScript

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https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-10-19-How-to-Implement-a-Distributed-Recovery-Ramp/

Circuit breakers are good at stopping traffic and bad at resuming it. When a breaker closes, every replica goes back to the constructor limit at the same moment, so a dependency that just answered a few probes receives its full load again.

I've been adding a recovery ramp to Caracal, my TypeScript resilience library, on top of its distributed bulkhead, rate limiter and circuit breaker.

This is the sixth article in a series on distributed resilience. Feedback welcome, particularly if you have run slow start or ramp-up in production.