Production Hardening an AI Video Pipeline: Retries, Fallbacks, and Crash Guards
The video generation platform I work on orchestrates a long chain of AI calls — a video generation provider for clip rendering, Claude for scene planning, ElevenLabs for voiceover — into finished ad creatives. When every provider was healthy, the pipeline worked. When they were not, it failed quietly: a ten-minute backend outage burned through all retries, an unhandled promise rejection took down…
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