Advanced AI API Orchestration

🏁 CASCADE: Try providers in priority order until success
   └── Best for: Predictable provider reliability

🚀 HEDGE: Query multiple providers simultaneously
   └── Best for: Latency-critical applications

⚡ CIRCUIT BREAKER: Temporarily bypass failed providers
   └── Best for: Preventing cascading failures

💡 Pro Tip: Combine patterns for maximum resilience—cascade for normal operations, hedge for critical requests.

⚠️ Complex Challenge: AI operations are inherently stateful, creating unique distributed system challenges.

🗺️ Conversation context (chatbots, assistants)
🔑 Session information (user preferences)
⏳ Partial results (long-running computations)
🧠 Model state (fine-tuning, adaptation)

🎯 Solution: Distributed state stores with consistent access across service instances.

• Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
• ✓ Eventual consistency without coordination overhead
• ✓ Perfect for AI systems with acceptable consistency delays

🔗 Goal: Route related requests to the same service instance for state efficiency.

⚡ Trade-off: State locality efficiency vs. system flexibility

📋 Critical: Maintain consistency across distributed caches storing AI outputs and intermediate results.