https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/detection/ Recent content in Detection on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 -0700 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/cost-of-late-failure-detection/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 -0700 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/cost-of-late-failure-detection/ An agent’s failure isn’t expensive because it failed—it’s expensive because you found out about it from a customer complaint instead of an alert. Detection latency multiplies the cleanup cost by an order of magnitude. This post explores the arithmetic of failure-finding, why automated detection is worth the infrastructure cost, and how to choose detection strategies.