Distributed Systems for Agentic Workloads — Documentation Index¶
Navigation¶
Foundations¶
Core distributed systems concepts adapted for agent systems.
- Causality & Ordering — Happens-before relations, vector clocks
- Consistency Models — Eventual, causal, and strong consistency for agent state
- Agent Failure Modes — Non-determinism, context degradation, token depletion
- Time, Clocks & Synchronization — Clock skew, event-time, timeout detection
- Trust & Byzantine Agents — Verifying agent claims, consensus with untrusted agents
- Zero Trust for Agents — Agent identity, capability policy, delegation chains, OBO tokens
Patterns¶
Observability¶
Making agent systems transparent and debuggable.
Predictability¶
Making agent behavior forecastable.
- Context Window Management
- Behavior Degradation Patterns
- Token Budgeting
- Testing & Validation
- SLOs for Agentic Workloads
Resource Allocation¶
Fair scheduling and resource management.
- Fair Queuing & Scheduling
- Reservation vs. Burst
- Context Window Allocation
- Priority Queues & Preemption
Failure Recovery¶
Transactional guarantees for agentic workflows.
Edge+Cloud Deployment¶
Patterns specific to distributed agent topologies.
- Agent Placement
- Network Partition Handling
- Asynchronous Coordination
- Local vs. Remote Inference
- Edge State Consistency
Integration Patterns¶
Scaling agents and coordinating workflows.
Case Study¶
Large-scale AI analytics engine demonstrating all patterns.
Examples¶
Code snippets, configurations, and runnable demos.
Architecture Decision Records¶
Design decisions and their rationale.