Sam Griffith

Sam Griffith

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Building Cloud-Native Platforms - Leaning into Agentic AI

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Today · 15 July 2026 Latest

Decomposed Observability for LLM Pipelines: Catching Cascading Failures Before They Compound

How do you instrument an LLM pipeline so that a silent failure in one agent doesn't quietly corrupt every downstream step before you notice?

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25 previous articles
  • Jul 13Phase-Emitting Agent Loops: Building Observability Frameworks That Catch Failures Before They Become Incidents
  • Jul 11Async Guardrails at Scale: How to Filter Agent Outputs Without Choking the Pipeline
  • Jul 9Wiring Agents Into Event Streams Without Losing the Wheel: Control Plane Patterns for Agentic Event-Driven Systems
  • Jul 7Building Contextual Anomaly Detection Into Customer-Facing Agents: A Security Architecture for Prompt Injection Defense
  • Jul 5Per-Phase Provenance Logging: Designing Audit Schemas for Compliant Financial Agent Pipelines
  • Jul 3MCP Scope Enforcement in VPC-Integrated Agentic Systems: Drawing Hard Lines Before Agents Cross Them
  • Jul 1RAG in Production: Typed Inputs, Elastic Storage, and the Latency Tradeoffs That Actually Matter
  • Jun 29Adaptive Agentic Integration: How to Wire Agents Into Microservices Without Painting Yourself Into a Corner
  • Jun 27When to Override the AI: A Platform Engineer's Guide to Maintaining Architectural Judgment Under AI Acceleration
  • Jun 25Cut the Fat, Keep the SLO: Latency and Cost Optimization Patterns for Large-Scale Agentic Recommendation Pipelines
  • Jun 23Contract-Driven Agents: The Output Schema Patterns That Make Agentic Systems Actually Trustworthy
  • Jun 21Contract-First Agent Design: How Typed Outputs Let You Ship New Agent Capabilities Without Breaking Production
  • Jun 19Agent Contracts in Production: How Structured Outputs Keep Multi-Agent Pipelines From Eating Themselves
  • Jun 17Contract-Driven Agents: How to Keep Human and AI Workflows Consistent When They Share the Same Data
  • Jun 16Checkpointing Agent Workflows: How to Stop Treating Interruption as Catastrophe
  • Jun 15Checkpoint Without Choking: Designing Agent State Persistence That Doesn't Kill Real-Time Customer Service
  • Jun 14Checkpoint What Matters: Designing Resumable Agent Workflows Without Drowning in State
  • Jun 12Designing Recoverable Agent Workflows: Step-Level Checkpoints and Localized State Boundaries
  • Jun 10Idempotent Agent Loops: Designing Fault-Tolerant Checkpoint Workflows
  • Jun 8Architecting Auditable State Checkpoints in Long-Running Agent Workflows
  • Jun 7Architecting Resilient Agent State: Checkpoint Recovery and Intent Governance in High-Stakes Pipelines
  • Jun 6State Without Memory Is Just Storage: Building Agent Checkpoints That Actually Tell You What Went Wrong
  • Jun 4Before You Ship: Designing Agent Regression Suites That Catch What Unit Tests Miss
  • Jun 3Hard Walls, Not Soft Nudges: Engineering Governance Boundaries That Hold in Production
  • Jun 2Trace the Decision, Not the Prompt: Building Compliance-Safe Agent Observability

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