The circuit breaker pattern
11 min read
How circuit breakers stop cascading failures with Closed, Open, and Half-Open states — and when retries, budgets, or bulkheads are a better fit.
- Distributed Systems
- Resilience
- Reliability
- Microservices
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Long-form notes on engineering, product, and the craft of shipping.
How to make your Next.js site appear in ChatGPT (and any LLM)
10 min read
A practical guide to Generative Engine Optimization for App Router — OAI-SearchBot vs GPTBot, robots.ts, sitemaps, SSR HTML, Bing/Google indexing, WAF traps, and an honest take on llms.txt.
- Next.js
- SEO
- ChatGPT
- LLMs
- GEO
6 problems your API gateway is already suffering from
11 min read
A diagnostic guide to six production failure modes that turn API gateways into outage amplifiers — saturation, timeouts, retries, god-gateways, blind observability, and weak hardening.
- API Gateway
- Distributed Systems
- Resilience
- Microservices
- Reliability
Timeouts, retries, jitter, and backoff strategies
11 min read
How to combine timeouts, retries, exponential backoff, and jitter so transient failures heal without turning into cascading outages.
- Distributed Systems
- Resilience
- HTTP
- Reliability
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