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Agent Reliability Engineering: Retries, Loop Detection, and Timeout Budgets for Production LLM Agents
Hands-on testing of retry with exponential backoff, loop detection via step-count limits, timeout budgets, and human escalation triggers for production LLM agents, with a ReliabilityBench stress-test harness.
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LangGraph in Production: Checkpointing, Postgres Persistence, and the Silent Re-Execution Trap We Hit Firsthand
We deployed LangGraph with a Postgres checkpointer in our lab, reproduced the silent re-execution trap on long tool calls, and documented the exact gotchas, workarounds, and cost math for production agent deployments.
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Qdrant Hybrid Search in Production: Our Dense + Sparse + RRF Pipeline, Tested, Broken, and Fixed
We ran Qdrant's dense+sparse hybrid search with FastEmbed and RRF fusion end-to-end on a single Docker container, hit every documented failure mode, and turned the production checklist into fixes we actually applied.
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Google Antigravity 2.0: Can Its Browser-Driving Agents Survive Real Repo Work?
We installed Google Antigravity 2.0 in our lab and put its Agent Manager and browser-driving agents through a scripted battery of real repo tasks, including a browser-driven E2E test. Here is what worked, what broke, and whether it justifies a seat.
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From Notebook to Production SLA: Running vLLM on Kubernetes with the Production Stack
A practitioner's guide to moving vLLM from a single-GPU notebook demo to a Kubernetes deployment with measured p50/p95 latency under concurrency, grounded in the vLLM production-stack release and the 2026 GLM-5.2 production SLA architecture.
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Your Agent Is Not a User: Giving AI Agents Their Own OAuth Identity with Scoped, Revocable Credentials
Why sharing your users' OAuth tokens with AI agents breaks audit, least privilege, and enterprise deals — and how to run agent identity with OBO exchange on a local stack.
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