Why Your LLM Calls Need a Circuit Breaker: A Lesson from Last Party 🔌

<h2> The Cascading Failure That Took Down Everything </h2> <p>Our payment service went down for 3 minutes. No big deal, right? Except every service that called payments kept

<h1> I got bored and wrote a circuit breaker </h1> <p>A few years ago I was working at a fintech company. We had an integration with a payment gateway. Critical one — money

<p>The circuit breaker pattern is a modern software design strategy used to detect failures and prevent an application from repeatedly executing an operation that is highly likely

<p>Day 14 of building OrderHub in the open. So far we have a monolith with real persistence, validation, exception handling, OpenAPI docs, a Redis cache, and a rate limiter. Today