RELIABILITY & SRE • 322 / 397
Apply familiar SRE thinking to AI dependencies and workflows.
Bulkhead
A bulkhead isolates resources so failure or overload in one workload does not sink others.
Think of it like
Think of Bulkhead exactly as you would in production infrastructure: assume components fail and design the user experience around controlled failure.
Real life
Banks, airlines and large online services use Bulkhead to keep critical systems dependable.
SRE lens
Give critical incident automation separate quotas from experimental chat traffic.
Remember thisA bulkhead isolates resources so failure or overload in one workload does not sink others.