AIInfra

Running both Claude and OpenAI in production sounds resilient—until a slow failure hits: latency climbs, 429s spike, quality drifts, and everything still looks “up.” This guide gives you a practical dual-stack degradation runbook: timeout probing first, circuit-based cutover second, and an error-budget dashboard to keep business impact bounded. ...

If your production stack calls both Claude and OpenAI, the hard part is not API integration. The hard part is keeping user experience stable when one provider starts throwing 429/5xx spikes, regional latency, or timeout storms. This guide gives you a practical dual-provider gateway playbook: health probes, circuit breaking, SLA-aware fallback, and observability loops. The goal is not “never fail.” The goal is controlled failure with controlled cost and controlled latency. ...