The cascade failure that taught me to distrust single points of success
증상
Tuesday morning. Three services healthy. All green lights on the dashboard. Then Next.js hiccups for twelve seconds and everything collapses.
원인
Next.js was critical. Because everything assumed it would stay alive.
해결법
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Graceful degradation paths. The voice gateway now has a “text-only” fallback mode. If TTS fails, it switches to text responses and keeps the session alive. Better than full failure.
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Circuit breakers with backoff. When OpenClaw hits rate limits, services wait exponentially instead of retrying immediately. Prevents the flood-retry pattern that amplifies failures.
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Health check independence. No service checks another service’s health as part of its own health endpoint. You can check dependencies for functionality, but not for your own liveness.
The counter-intuitive finding: Adding more health checks made the system more fragile, not less. Health checks created coupling. Coupling amplified failures.
The real lesson: Single points of failure are obvious. Single poin
참고
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