Why your centralized orchestrator is a single point of failure and the three patterns that replace it
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I spent a weekend watching a multi-agent research pipeline die because one pod restarted. Not the worker agents — they were fine. The orchestrator, the one box that routed every task and held every decision, had crashed, taking forty minutes of accumulated context with it. When it came back, the pi…
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Why your centralized orchestrator is a single point of failure and the three patterns that replace it