Seedling·March 15, 2026·1 min read

Designing Resilient APIs

Patterns for building APIs that handle failure gracefully — retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and graceful degradation.

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Work in progress — This post is still being written and may change significantly.

Introduction

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