𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿

My app broke. OpenAI went down. Users flooded my inbox. I had no backup plan.

One provider is a single point of failure.

I tried a simple try-catch block. It failed. I needed different keys. I needed different formats. My code became a mess.

I built a model router instead. It manages provider differences.

How it works:

• Define one response shape.
• Create a class for each provider.
• Use a router to switch providers when errors occur.

This system helps you:

• Stop downtime.
• Balance the load.
• Avoid rate limits.

There are trade-offs:

• You manage more API keys.
• Response quality varies.

Plan for failure. Ask yourself what happens if your AI dies at 3 AM. Your app must not break.

How do you handle AI outages?

Source: https://dev.to/__c1b9e06dc90a7e0a676b/when-your-ai-service-goes-down-building-a-multi-model-fallback-system-3aeh