Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer PCDOE — Question 197

You manage a microservice that provides a public-facing API (Service A). Service A is time-critical and has a response SLO of 500 ms. Service A makes synchronous calls to internal API (Service B) that is known to become unreliable under heavy load, resulting in connection timeout errors or 500 errors. Service B is used to collect request information for the transactions processed by Service A. You need to mitigate the impact of Service B issues on your Service A users. What should you do?