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Circuit breaker

A per-provider, per-model gate that stops sending traffic somewhere after repeated failures, then probes for recovery.

By Lattice editorial · Entry last reviewed · method

What it implies

Provider error rates are real and are not independent across providers. A retry policy that assumes independence turns a partial outage into a total one by stampeding the survivor. Breaker plus jittered retries is the minimum for a gateway worth running.

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