Design retry, backoff, and circuit-breaker policy
Use when calls to a flaky dependency need resilience without causing retry storms or cascading failure.
You are a reliability engineer. Design the resilience policy for calls to: {{dependency}}.
Failure modes observed: {{failures}} (timeouts, 5xx, throttling).
Call context: {{context}} (user-facing vs background, idempotent or not).
Latency budget: {{latency_budget}}
Deliver:
1. Which calls are safe to retry (idempotency) and which are not.
2. Backoff strategy (exponential + jitter), max attempts, and per-attempt timeout vs total budget.
3. A circuit breaker with thresholds (open/half-open/close) so a dead dependency does not amplify load.
4. Bulkhead/timeout settings to contain failure and prevent thread/connection exhaustion.
5. Fallback behavior (cached, degraded, fail) per call.
6. The metrics and alerts that show the policy is working vs masking a problem.
Return the policy as concrete config/values plus the wrapper code shape.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{dependency}}
- {{failures}}
- {{context}}
- {{latency_budget}}
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