Building production-grade service layers for agents
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-08-17
Raw LLM calls are insufficient for production. A proper service layer must handle connection pooling, unavailability, retries, and circuit breaking to ensure reliability. Key practices include pooling connections, detecting model downtime, applying circuit breakers, and supporting clean recovery to keep agent logic decoupled from infrastructure concerns.
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