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Simulated model provider outage drill comparing retry policies, a circuit breaker and a fallback on 12,000 AI requests

Outage drill: a fallback saved 2,452 failed AI requests

When a model provider slowed down for 60 seconds in a simulation of 12,000 requests, a client with plain retries failed 18.5 percent of them and sent 1.62 provider calls for every user request. Adding

Fri Oct 23 2026 · 11 min read · 0 views

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