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Apply familiar SRE thinking to AI dependencies and workflows.
Retry Storm
A retry storm occurs when many clients repeatedly retry a failing dependency and make the outage worse.
Think of it like
Think of Retry Storm 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 Retry Storm to keep critical systems dependable.
SRE lens
Backoff and circuit breakers are especially important with shared AI providers.
Remember thisA retry storm occurs when many clients repeatedly retry a failing dependency and make the outage worse.