Swarm vs. pipeline vs. graph: choosing the wrong orchestration topology will cost you 6 months - Decision Framework
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I spent six months building a swarm for a task that was secretly a DAG. Not six months of building and iterating. Six months of building, debugging, rewriting the coordination layer, adding tracing I never needed, and watching a system that should have been deterministic behave like weather. The ta…
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Swarm vs. pipeline vs. graph: choosing the wrong orchestration topology will cost you 6 months - Decision Framework