#reliability

From a system perspective, we summarize that the essence of the LLM function is not the prompt statement itself but the boundary, contract, state, and failure handling.

We summarize the reasons and operating patterns for retries, timeouts, fallbacks, and circuit breakers in LLM systems that should be designed differently from regular APIs.

Outbox pipeline design that simultaneously ensures transaction consistency and event delivery reliability

Organizing key scope, TTL, and response reuse policies to safely handle duplicate requests

Designing limits, buffers, and retries to protect the system from producer-consumer rate imbalances.