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Building ArthMitra: A Financial Literacy Voice Agent for India When it comes to financial literacy, many people face a massive barrier: the jargon, the complex documents, and the sheer volume of…

  • ArthMitra is an Indian voice-based financial assistant named Anisha
  • Assistant fetches live exchange rates, checks government scheme eligibility
  • Anisha remembers past interactions and supports code-mixed Hindi-English conversations

"half-open" twice is not the same state: the bug that shaped breakwater 1.0

breakwater is my resilience toolkit for Node.js — retry, circuit breaker, timeout, bulkhead, rate limiting, stale-while-open caching, all composable, with observability built in.

  • Half-open state differs from open state in circuit breaker
  • Race condition occurs when half-open transitions to open
  • Fence introduced to prevent incorrect decisions in state transitions

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