#Resilience

System resilience patterns — retries, backoff, bulkheads, and chaos engineering.

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Your LLM Provider Will Have an Outage: Circuit Breakers, Fallback Chains, and Degraded Modes

OpenAI and Anthropic both document outages, overload codes, and best-effort availability. The survival kit: LLM-aware circuit breakers, same-model-first fallback chains, and degraded modes designed before you need them.

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Designing a Multi-Agent Backend: The Orchestrator Pattern

AI Engineering

AI Engineering•Jun 4•24 min read

Designing a Multi-Agent Backend: The Orchestrator Pattern

One agent, one context window, one serial loop — until it stalls at 40 minutes and 180K tokens. The orchestrator pattern fans work out to isolated sub-agents in parallel, then synthesizes. Here's the backend, in compiling Go.

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Building Resilient Distributed Systems with Go

System Design

System Design•Jan 15•16 min read

Building Resilient Distributed Systems with Go

Circuit breakers, bulkhead isolation, timeout propagation, and idempotent retries in Go — the patterns for surviving component failures.

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