Add circuit breaker for link check to improve efficiency

What problem do you want to solve?

There are cases where the link check send a large number of requests, and if an endpoint is failing, or returns a 429, then subsequent requests to the same endpoint should not be tried.

What is the proposed solution?

Implement some variant of a circuit breaker to automate the timeout, see:

• https://selvaganesh93.medium.com/adding-circuit-breakers-to-nodejs-apis-8c980d3e96c4
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/opossum