Workflow Orchestration

5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Still Believe About AI Agent Checkpoint-and-Resume Design That Are Silently Killing Recoverable Workflows in H2 2026

AI Agents

5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Still Believe About AI Agent Checkpoint-and-Resume Design That Are Silently Killing Recoverable Workflows in H2 2026

It is a quiet kind of disaster. A long-running AI agent workflow, one that has been executing for 47 minutes, coordinating tool calls, managing sub-agent trees, and accumulating expensive LLM-generated state, hits a transient network fault. And then, because of a fundamental misunderstanding baked into the checkpoint-and-resume architecture, the entire

By Scott Miller
FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Must Know About AI Agent State Persistence Architecture in H2 2026

AI Agents

FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Must Know About AI Agent State Persistence Architecture in H2 2026

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in enterprise backend infrastructure right now. AI agents are getting smarter, longer-running, and more deeply embedded in mission-critical workflows. But the infrastructure underneath them, specifically the ephemeral compute environments popularized by serverless functions, containerized microservices, and spot-instance orchestration, was never designed to hold state

By Scott Miller
How a B2B SaaS Platform Discovered Its AI Agent Orchestrator Was Silently Dropping Tool Outputs During Concurrent Session Spikes (And the Backpressure Queue That Fixed It)

AI Agents

How a B2B SaaS Platform Discovered Its AI Agent Orchestrator Was Silently Dropping Tool Outputs During Concurrent Session Spikes (And the Backpressure Queue That Fixed It)

It started with a support ticket that seemed almost too mundane to escalate. A sales operations manager at a mid-market manufacturing firm reported that her AI assistant "occasionally forgets what it just looked at." The support team at Velorix, a B2B SaaS platform providing AI-powered revenue operations tooling,

By Scott Miller
Celery vs. Temporal: Which Workflow Orchestration Backend Actually Holds Up When Enterprise Multi-Agent Pipelines Scale Past 10,000 Concurrent Agent Tasks in 2026

Workflow Orchestration

Celery vs. Temporal: Which Workflow Orchestration Backend Actually Holds Up When Enterprise Multi-Agent Pipelines Scale Past 10,000 Concurrent Agent Tasks in 2026

There is a moment every platform engineering team dreads: the Monday morning Slack message that reads, "The agent pipeline is backed up. We have 40,000 tasks queued and nothing is moving." In 2026, that moment arrives faster than ever. As enterprise AI systems graduate from single-model inference

By Scott Miller
7 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Believe About Stateful Agent Checkpoint Recovery and Workflow Resumption After Partial Failures in Long-Running Multi-Agent Pipelines

Multi-Agent Systems

7 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Believe About Stateful Agent Checkpoint Recovery and Workflow Resumption After Partial Failures in Long-Running Multi-Agent Pipelines

Long-running multi-agent pipelines are no longer a research curiosity. By 2026, enterprise backend teams are routinely deploying orchestration systems where dozens of specialized AI agents collaborate across hours or even days to complete complex workflows: financial audits, autonomous code review cycles, supply chain optimization runs, and multi-step document processing at

By Scott Miller
7 Signs Your Agentic Workflow Orchestration Layer Is Becoming a Single Point of Failure as Multi-Step Task Complexity Scales in 2026

agentic AI

7 Signs Your Agentic Workflow Orchestration Layer Is Becoming a Single Point of Failure as Multi-Step Task Complexity Scales in 2026

Agentic AI systems have moved from experimental sandboxes to production-critical infrastructure at an astonishing pace. In 2026, engineering teams are no longer asking whether to deploy multi-step agentic workflows; they are asking how to keep them from collapsing under their own weight. The orchestration layer, the central nervous system that

By Scott Miller
How a Legal Tech Startup's Multi-Tenant Agentic Platform Collapsed Under Runaway Cross-Agent Loops ,  And the Cycle Detection and Circuit-Breaking Architecture That Fixed It

agentic AI

How a Legal Tech Startup's Multi-Tenant Agentic Platform Collapsed Under Runaway Cross-Agent Loops , And the Cycle Detection and Circuit-Breaking Architecture That Fixed It

In early 2026, a promising legal technology startup we'll call LexOrbit was riding the wave of agentic AI adoption. Their flagship product: a multi-tenant SaaS platform that deployed autonomous AI agent pipelines for law firms , automating contract review, case research, document summarization, compliance checks, and client intake processing.

By Scott Miller