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engineering

Circuit Breakers for Flaky OSINT Sources: Fail Fast, Recover Quietly

Some OSINT sources are up 99.9% of the time. Some are up 73%. Retrying a down source synchronously is how pipelines die. Circuit breakers turn a 30-second timeout into a 1-millisecond :circuit_open.

Apr 09, 2026 ·6 min

engineering

Building Self-Healing OTP Supervision Trees

How Prismatic uses OTP supervision strategies, circuit breakers, and remediation registries to build systems that recover from failures automatically without human intervention.

Mar 09, 2026 ·10 min