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Reliability

Failure modes, operability, and keeping systems up when the inputs and the dependencies misbehave.

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Determinism, Isolation, Observability, Risk
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  2. articleThe Model Is a Dependency

    Every layer of the harness has existed to put the right tokens in front of one hardcoded model string. This post pulls that string out and makes the model a dependency: why you route a cheap model for easy turns and a strong one for hard turns, what a fallback looks like when a provider is down, and why 'models are commodities' is a claim about your architecture before it is a claim about the market. Part seven of The Agent Platform Handbook.

    AgentsAI platformsInferenceReliabilityEconomicsTypeScript

    14 min read · 8 chapters

  3. articleTraffic Replay as a Security Primitive

    WAF tuning is a guessing game because you cannot reproduce the traffic that triggered the rule. Deterministic replay changes that.

    Applied securityWAF and traffic inspectionEdge systemsReliabilityDeterminismDeveloper tooling

    12 min read · 8 chapters

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