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◈ Gemini API/2026-04-22Advanced

Resilient Gemini API Services in Production — Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads, and Fallback Models That Keep Your App Alive

A production-ready resilience playbook for Gemini API: circuit breakers, bulkheads, jittered retries, and model fallback chains — with working Python so your service stays up even when the upstream doesn't.

⟐ Gemini Dev/2026-06-18Advanced

Keeping Nightly Batches Alive After the Gemini CLI Stops Responding: A google-genai SDK Fallback

On June 18 the Gemini CLI stops answering requests. Here is a small fallback harness that probes whether the CLI can still respond and quietly reroutes unattended batch jobs to the google-genai SDK, built from my own automation.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-12Intermediate

Designing a Nightly Batch That Survives a Gemini API Outage — Three Layers of Defense

This week's widespread Gemini outage cost my nightly batch three hours of work. Here is how I rebuilt it with three layers of defense: classified retries, a model fallback chain, graceful degradation, plus idempotency keys and a catch-up queue.