Build infrastructure with an explicit contract: an agent mailbox, a compatibility layer, a data warehouse, a background processing service. This work suits a factory when the requirements can be exercised repeatedly against known inputs and expected behavior. Record source provenance, make refreshes reproducible, and expose operational state so the system can be maintained after its first successful run.
The machinery underneath
- Protocol and data contracts
- Durable storage
- Repeatable ingestion or processing
- Operational inspection
A possible production loop
- Define the contract
- Implement a complete vertical slice
- Run compatibility and failure checks
- Package, observe, and maintain
What needs to be checked
Check schema drift, retries, idempotency, and partial failure. Trace derived records back to source data and a specific processing run.