All Posts tagged as "Idempotency"

A Timeout Is Not a Failed Action: Review This Refund Retry

A refund request times out, the retry succeeds, and the test is green. Is it safe to ship? Inspect a synthetic trace, ask for the missing evidence, and run a local regression that exposes two effects for one approved operation.

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Jul 2026Software Architecture

Event-Driven Agents: Duplicates, Loops and Recovery After a Crash

Connecting agents through events decouples them, and also exposes two failure modes that ordinary services also face: duplicate delivery of expensive, side-effecting work, and agents triggering each other in loops. An event envelope and handler guards for both.

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