Distributed Systems articles

4 articles about Distributed Systems, newest first.

• Scaling AI Inference: Why Orchestration is the New Frontier — Meta engineers Nishant Gupta and Naman Ahuja explain why AI inference is moving from simple model serving to complex, distributed orchestration at scale.
• How OpenAI Routes LLM Inference at Scale — Learn how OpenAI evolved its inference load balancer from a proportional controller to a global optimizer to minimize latency and protect KV cache locality.
• AI Agents Are Distributed Systems: Refund Timeout Lessons — Explore how AI agents behave like distributed systems, why timeouts mean unknown, and the controls needed to prevent duplicate refunds.
• Beyond the Chatbox: Why MCP Tasks are the Secret to Reliable AI Agents — Discover how MCP Tasks move AI agents from simple request-response loops to durable, long-running workflows that survive crashes and network blips.