=padding-bottom:36.18705035971223%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.10/blog/2018/egress-tcp/errorFetchingBookRating.png title="The Ratings service error messages"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.10/blog/2018/egress-tcp/errorFetchingBookRating.png alt="The Ratings service error messages"></a></div><figcaption>The Ratings service error messages</figcaption></figure><p>As in <a href=/v1.10/blog/2018/egress-https/>Consuming External Web Services</a>, you experience <strong>graceful service degradation</