August 1, 2026
A technical taxonomy of autonomy for LLM systems—from scripted prompt chains to fully autonomous agents—with objective criteria for locating a system on the spectrum and the engineering consequences of each level.
November 22, 2025
Inference throughput and memory efficiency increasingly determine the cost of production LLM systems. This article surveys vLLM, SGLang, and TGI and the algorithms behind them.
November 8, 2025
A structured account of four coordination patterns for multi-agent LLM systems—hierarchical, sequential, debate, and reactive—together with their failure modes and durability requirements.
October 25, 2025
LLM gateways provide failover, caching, rate limiting, and cost control between applications and model providers. This article compares four gateways on architecture and reported performance.
October 11, 2025
Effective operation of LLM agents depends on observability: the ability to trace, evaluate, and debug non-deterministic systems. This article surveys the tooling landscape and the metrics it exposes.
September 27, 2025
Microsoft has consolidated AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into a single Agent Framework. This article examines the merger, its stated design goals, and the trade-offs it presents for production teams.
September 12, 2025
Persistent memory extends LLM agents from stateless responders to context-aware systems. This article surveys three production memory architectures and the benchmarks used to evaluate them.
August 28, 2025
As LLM agents move from prototypes to production, reliability requires more than retry logic. This article surveys durable-execution patterns and their application to long-running agentic workflows.