Sam Griffith

Sam Griffith

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Building Cloud-Native Platforms - Leaning into Agentic AI

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Today · 15 October 2026 Latest

Runtime Guardrails in Financial Agents: Rate Limiting, Anomaly Detection, and the Infrastructure That Holds It All Together

How do you prevent an AI agent with financial tool access from becoming a liability when its behavior drifts, its connections persist across regions, or its training quietly rewires its judgment?

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45 previous articles
  • Oct 13Agents in the Stream: How to Keep Visibility and Control When Agentic Workflows Touch Your Event Bus
  • Oct 11Integrating Agents Into Living Microservice Ecosystems Without Blowing Up Reliability
  • Oct 9Audit Trails for Agentic Systems in Financial Services: Governance Patterns That Actually Hold Up Under Scrutiny
  • Oct 7Checkpointing Agent State in Production: How to Stop Long-Running Workflows from Losing Their Minds Mid-Task
  • Oct 5Testing Agents That Don't Stay Still: Automated Evaluation Under Real-World Conditions
  • Oct 3Safe Delegation Boundaries: How Platform Teams Can Wire AI Coding Assistants Into CI/CD Without Losing Control
  • Oct 1Tracing Cascading Failures in Agentic Pipelines: What SRE Teams Need to Build Now
  • Sep 29Cheaper, Faster, Smarter: Practical Cost and Latency Levers for Agentic Pipelines Running Mixed LLM Fleets
  • Sep 27Routing Rules That Don't Break at 3am: Designing Dynamic LLM Fallback for High-Availability Agentic Pipelines
  • Sep 25Closing the Loop: How to Wire Real-Time Feedback Into RAG Architecture So Retrieval Actually Improves Over Time
  • Sep 23Critic Agents as Sentinels: Designing Feedback Loops That Catch Cascading Failures Before They Reach Users
  • Sep 21Instrumenting Function Calls in Production Agents: From Blind Invocations to Observable, Governed Tool Use
  • Sep 19Defending the Agentic Perimeter: Input Validation, Silent Failures, and the Governance Layer You Can't Outsource
  • Sep 17Context Window Resizing for Multi-File Coding Sessions: Keeping Agentic Assistants On-Task Without Losing the Thread
  • Sep 15Contract-First Agent Design: Structured Outputs, Scratch Pads, and the Governance Layer Between Agents
  • Sep 13Per-Phase Provenance Logging: Correlating Agent Execution Traces with Real-Time Governance Signals
  • Sep 11Building Auditable Agentic Pipelines: Governance Checkpoints That Don't Break What You've Already Shipped
  • Sep 9Per-Phase Provenance Logging: Building Audit-Grade Observability Into Multi-Agent LLM Pipelines
  • Sep 7What Enterprise Observability Data Is Actually Telling Us About Agentic Failure Modes
  • Sep 5When Your Retrieval Agent Goes Quiet: Monitoring Frameworks for RAG Degradation in Production
  • Sep 3Checkpoint or Restart: Engineering Resumable Agent Workflows That Survive Real Failures
  • Sep 1Audit Trails That Actually Hold Up: Designing Agentic Logging for FINRA, SEC, and Beyond
  • Aug 31Testing Agentic Systems Under Real Constraints: Latency, Accuracy, and the Gaps Your Happy-Path Tests Won't Find
  • Aug 29Cutting the Fat: Cost and Latency Optimization for Agentic Pipelines in Production
  • Aug 27Cutting the Latency Between Agent Failure and Human Eyes: HITL Escalation Patterns for Production Support Systems
  • Aug 25Alerting Without Crying Wolf: SRE Strategies for Detecting Agent Drift Before It Becomes an Incident
  • Aug 23Critic Agents That Actually Catch Drift: Designing Feedback Loops for High-Stakes Agentic Systems in the First Six Weeks
  • Aug 21Model Versioning for Agentic Systems: Rolling Back Without Breaking What's Downstream
  • Aug 19Hardening Agent Tool Calls: Prompt Injection Defense and Supply Chain Trust in Multi-Tenant Agentic Systems
  • Aug 17Least-Privilege Tool Credentials in Agentic Systems: Designing Function Calling Protocols That Actually Hold Up in Production
  • Aug 15Holding the Line: How Senior Engineers Keep Architectural Judgment While AI Tooling Accelerates Everything Around Them
  • Aug 13Wiring Agents Into Event-Driven Systems Without Burning Down Your Consistency Guarantees
  • Aug 11Locking Down the Agent Layer: Rate Limiting, Input Validation, and Governance Patterns for Multi-Tenant LLM Platforms
  • Aug 9Context Window as a First-Class Resource: Resizing Strategies for AI Coding Agents Across Multi-File Sessions
  • Aug 7What Early Enterprise Adopters Actually Traded Away to Ship Agentic Systems
  • Aug 5Observing the Retrieval Orchestrator: Platform-Grade Monitoring for Agent-Based RAG Under Real Load
  • Aug 3Edge-First Agentic Systems: Caching Discipline, Delivery Guarantees, and the Orchestration Shift That Changes How You Design Both
  • Aug 1Model Routing Under Pressure: Designing Latency-Aware Fallback Strategies for Production Agentic Pipelines
  • Jul 31Contract-Driven Agents: How Platform Teams Can Enforce LLM Output Schemas Without Strangling Agent Autonomy
  • Jul 29Checkpointing Agent State at Failure Boundaries: Patterns for Long-Running Tasks That Don't Start Over
  • Jul 27Cache or Recompute? The Agentic Pipeline Decision That Determines Whether Your Real-Time Agent Feels Fast or Broken
  • Jul 25Handoff Without the Drop: Engineering Low-Latency Human Escalation for Agent-Based Customer Support
  • Jul 23Supervisor Topologies for Cascading Failure Detection: Building Self-Healing Agentic Pipelines Without Manual Intervention
  • Jul 21Alerting for Things You Can't Directly Measure: Detecting Hallucination and Pipeline Drift in Production Agentic Systems
  • Jul 19How to Test Agents That Will Lie to You, Leak Your Data, and Fail in Production

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