Tag: observability
RBX Journal articles filed under this tag.
- August 26, 2026
Recover, change and prove it
Resilience is not uptime. It is the tested ability to recover, change dependencies and produce evidence that critical functions remain within bounds.
- August 6, 2026
The plan that shrank
We wrote a data platform plan for Robson: sixteen metrics, eight analytical tables, a warehouse, dashboards. We handed it to a second model with a one-line instruction: protect production. The verdict was NO-GO, and every cut it proposed survived verification against the code. What remained fits in five invariants, a two-table contract, and a rehearsal with numbers. The story of how a good plan gets better by shrinking.
- August 1, 2026
Governed autonomy is a distributed systems problem
Why idempotency, provenance, unknown outcomes and vendor-neutral observability belong at the center of agentic architecture, not at the margins of the prompt.
- April 1, 2026
The Model Is Not the System
A recent AI agent architecture incident reinforced a point most teams still miss: reliable agents are defined by runtime control, not by model selection alone.