Build a Resilient Multi-Provider LLM Client in TypeScript: Timeouts, Retries, Circuit Breakers, and Failover
A hands-on TypeScript tutorial for building a production LLM client that survives slow upstreams, rate limits, transient 5xx errors, and whole-provider outages — a per-attempt timeout, exponential backoff with jitter, a per-provider circuit breaker, and automatic failover, in about 250 lines of typed, fully tested code.