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The author implemented a circuit breaker with a single Postgres table, recording workflow_id, step_id, fail_count, last_fail, cleared_by, and cleared_at; two consecutive failures stop that step and send an ntfy alert, until it is reset after human confirmation. Since this mechanism was built, it has been triggered four times, catching issues such as rate limiting, malformed URLs, portal processing delays, and network timeouts.
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10/16/2026
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