How One Enterprise Backend Team Discovered Their Agentic Workflow Versioning Strategy Was Incompatible With Rolling Deployments , and the Painful Refactor That Finally Made Zero-Downtime Agent Updates Possible
When the backend platform team at a mid-sized fintech company called Meridian Payments first deployed their agentic workflow system in late 2024, they celebrated. Their new AI-powered reconciliation agent could autonomously handle dispute classification, fraud signal correlation, and ledger anomaly triage, cutting manual review time by over 60%. It was,