Every Way LLM Provider Failover Breaks in Production
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TL;DR Basic retry and fallback logic often fails in production because LLM APIs introduce streaming, tokenization, and schema constraints absent from traditional REST services. Mid-stream network drops, tool-call argument mismatches, and cascading rate limits turn naive fallback loops into incident…
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- 2026-09-09 14:48 · DEV Community — AI
Every Way LLM Provider Failover Breaks in Production