If there are five microservices, labeled as microservice one, microservice two, microservice three, microservice four, and microservice five. Microservice three breaks. Requests from microservice two to microservice three are not being processed, leading to a backlog of requests from microservice two, what strategies would you implement to resolve this issue?

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Implement strategies to resolve backlog of requests from microservice two due to microservice three breaking.

Identify the root cause of the issue in microservice three and fix it.
Implement circuit breaker pattern to handle failures and prevent cascading failures.
Implement retries with exponential backoff for failed requests from microservice two to microservice three.
Scale up microservice three to handle increased load from microservice two.
Implement message queues or asynchronous processing to decouple microservices and handle requests more efficiently.

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