SRE

When Claude API starts returning 429 under high load, most systems don’t just slow down—they collapse: queue buildup, retry storms, upstream timeout chains, and pager noise. ...

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. ...