When a service you depend on is struggling, how do you stop your retries from making it worse?
- Module
- 03/05
- To read
- ~5 min
An upstream LLM provider went down, and twenty workers kept retrying their failed calls every half second. What do you think broke?
In the module you make your guess first, then read what happened and why.
The 3-State Machine Lifecycle
Sliding Window Error Rate Thresholds
Instant Fallback Paths (Fail-Fast)
Adaptive Half-Open Probe Rate
A slow-down plan for a struggling service
A spec for your own app, as a text file you download. The module also gives you the prompt for Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity, a checklist to check what it built, and recommended skills.
- Fault tolerance
- Load balancers and health checks
- Caching