Spring env, should I still use Hystrix on new project

Question

Seems that hystrix is near end of life and that netflix stack is now a bit deprecated. We're building a stack for a brand new project and we need a circuit breaker, our default choice would have been hystrix as it is well known and appreciated by the team.

Today hystrix is fully integrated in spring cloud, is there any plan to remove it soon ?

Answer 1

Spring Cloud Circuit breaker provides an abstraction across different circuit breaker implementations. It provides a consistent API to use in your applications allowing you the developer to choose the circuit breaker implementation that best fits your needs for your app.

Supported Implementations

• Netfix Hystrix

• Resilience4J

• Sentinel

• Spring Retry

The main benefit of using this is you have option to choose different circuit breaker libraries. Migration from one to other pain point is less.

There is nice documentation and sample code on official website

Answer 2

Definitely not. Spring Cloud Hystrix is in maintenance mode and will not be available any more starting from the 2020.0.0 release train (support removed with this commit). Resilience4J is a good replacement.