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#background-jobs

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2 posts

2024

2 posts

AI
Background Job Orchestration for Real-Time Voice Agents
Voice agents feel synchronous but live on a mess of tool calls, reconnects, and long-running jobs. A background job manager with dedup, bounded retries, a dead-letter queue, and a sideband control channel — plus a discovery system for assumptions you cannot verify.
May 30, 20245 min read
Algorithms
A Supervision State Machine for Long-Running Background Tasks
Background jobs that run for minutes, pause for human answers, and survive restarts need more than a status column. A design for pausable, resumable, auditable background work: explicit states, a question channel, generation gates, and append-only logs.
Feb 27, 20246 min read