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Idempotent Writes, and Why Retries Duplicate Data
Every pipeline gets retried eventually, and a non-idempotent write turns each retry into duplicates. Four patterns that make a write safe to repeat.
Reliability
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Rerun From Failed Activity in Fabric: Design for the Second Run
What a Fabric pipeline rerun actually runs again, why utcNow() and run IDs break recovery, and how to make rerun from failed activity safe.
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Agent Fallbacks Are a Launch Requirement, Not an Ops Task
Decide what an agent does when a tool fails, a step runs out of budget or grounding is weak before launch, and make the release check fail without it.
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Where Agent State Breaks: Resume, Retries and Duplicate Runs
Typed state and checkpoints don't stop an agent paying twice: five places agent workflow state breaks at its boundaries, and patterns that hold.
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Incident Response for AI Systems: Handling AI Failures
Effective incident response minimizes AI system impact and enables quick recovery.
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Timeout Management in AI Applications: Balancing Speed and Completeness
Timeout management in AI applications requires balancing responsiveness with allowing complex operations to complete. Use adaptive timeouts, deadline…
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Agent Reliability Patterns: Building Robust AI Systems
Building reliable agents requires investment in error handling, recovery mechanisms, and observability. These patterns form the foundation for production AI…
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Operational Risk in AI Systems: Keeping the Lights On
Operational resilience is the unsung prerequisite for AI adoption. Practical SRE for AI means instrumenting model performance, bounding cost exposure, and…