Handling OpenAI 429/5xx Storms in Go: Token Bucket, Exponential Backoff, and Circuit Breakers
Most Go teams are not killed by a single API error. They are killed by a retry storm they created themselves. ...
Circuit Breaker
OpenAI Responses + Go: Taming Retry Storms with Idempotency Keys, Jittered Backoff, and Circuit Breakers
The most expensive outage is not a single failure — it is a failure amplified by retries. In an OpenAI Responses + Go tool-calling stack, missing idempotency, jittered backoff, and breaker thresholds can turn 10 failing requests into 1000 downstream calls in minutes. ...