LLM Circuit Breakers and Fallback Chains: Multi-Provider Failover in Production (2026)
Circuit breakers, fallback chains, hedging, and bulkheads for LLM apps: patterns that keep OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini outages from taking you down.
Production LLM Articles
LLM Streaming in Production: SSE, Backpressure, and Cancellation Patterns (2026)
Production LLM streaming over SSE: fix nginx buffering, propagate cancellation to the provider, handle backpressure, and instrument TTFT for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
LLM Rate Limiting and 429 Retries in Production: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini (2026)
A production playbook for handling HTTP 429 responses from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini in 2026: retry-after, exponential backoff with jitter, token buckets, circuit breakers, and multi-provider fallback.
Text-to-SQL with LLMs in Production: Schema Linking, Query Validation, and Guardrails (2026)
A practical, evaluation-first guide to shipping text-to-SQL with LLMs in production: schema linking as RAG, semantic layers, three-stage query validation, and defense-in-depth guardrails, with runnable code and 2026 benchmark numbers.
OpenAI Batch API vs Anthropic Message Batches: A Production Guide to 50% Cheaper LLM Inference (2026)
OpenAI Batch API and Anthropic Message Batches both cut LLM token costs by 50% in exchange for a 24-hour SLA. Here is when batch wins, working Python for both, and the production pitfalls nobody mentions.