Scheduling, Queuing, and Concurrency Control Systems that include agents and tool-driven workflows inherit a basic truth from distributed systems: work arrives in bursts, capacity is finite, and variance dominates outcomes. If the system does not decide what gets processed, when it gets processed, and how much is allowed to run at once, the system will […]

Tool Error Handling: Retries, Fallbacks, Timeouts Agents do their most valuable work at the boundary between intention and execution. That boundary is messy. Tools fail, networks wobble, rate limits bite, dependencies degrade, and upstream services return responses that are technically valid but practically unusable. Without disciplined error handling, an agentic system becomes unreliable even when […]