Architecture
Architecture discussions, with interactive diagrams.
Where Does Turn 12 Go? Load Balancing Agent Sessions
Scalable Backends, stop 2: L4 vs L7, round-robin vs consistent hashing, and why sticky sessions fight you, told through AgentDesk's long-running agent sessions.
Interactive diagrams →"Does It Scale?" Is Three Questions Pretending to Be One
Scalable Backends, stop 1: latency, throughput and availability, why they trade against each other, and why agent backends feel the trade first. Told through AgentDesk's overnight jump from 100 to 100,000 sessions.
Interactive diagrams →AgentDesk: The System Behind the Scalable Backends Series
Meet AgentDesk, the fictional AI agent platform used as the running example throughout the Scalable Backends teaching series — and its baseline container architecture.
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