17:01
2026-07-04
pub.towardsai.net
ai-agents
Fault-Tolerant Agent Pipelines: Checkpoint, Retry, and Compensate
Fault-tolerant agent pipelines using checkpointing, idempotent retries, exponential backoff with jitter, and the Saga pattern can reduce wasted API spend from $95/day to $5/day for a 20-step research …