Tag: distributed-systems

All the articles with the tag "distributed-systems".

• Why Agents Make Good Actors

  Published: 28 Jun, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  AI agents are stateful, long-running, and mostly idle. That's not a quirk — it's a specification. The actor model was built for exactly this shape of work.

• Inside the ReAct loop: how agents actually iterate

  Published: 19 Apr, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  What actually happens inside one iteration of the ReAct loop — why the model is stateless, how the transcript grows, when the loop exits, and why the harness around the model is where the engineering value lives.

• From Process Managers to Stable Agent Workflows

  Published: 24 Jan, 2026 |  at  10:00 AM

  Agent workflows feel new, but the stability problems they face are not. Here's how decades of integration architecture apply to building production agent systems.

• Keeping State Consistent: Database Transactions in LangGraph Workflows

  Published: 22 Jan, 2026 |  at  06:00 PM

  Three patterns for keeping LangGraph workflow state and database state synchronized - idempotent tasks, read-before-write synchronization, and the transactional outbox pattern.