I run a free tools site as a solo developer, and out of the 100+ tools on it, the video downloader has been the hardest to keep reliable in production. Not because the initial build was hard, because
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Mark Reeves
circuit breakers for a video downloader is a great war story - download pipelines fail in exactly the cascading way breakers prevent. what was tripping without it, retry storms against the source or local resource exhaustion?