Running OpenRouter in Production: What Breaks, What Works, and What I’d Do Differently Getting an...
OpenRouter standardizes LLM responses into one API, enabling simplified error handling and graceful fallbacks that prevent customer-facing outages. Teams reduce MTTR with end-to-end observability, request IDs, timeouts, automatic failover, and exponential-backoff retries on transient failures only.
Running OpenRouter in Production: What Breaks, What Works, and What I’d Do Differently
Getting an LLM to respond to your first prompt is easy.
Keeping it reliable in production?
That’s where things become interesting.
One thing I’ve learned building software is that users don’t care whose fault it is when something breaks.
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