In part 1, we described distributed computation as a graph and constrained the graph for this analysis to microservices, functions, stream processing jobs and AI Agents as nodes, and RPC, queues, and topics as the edges. Within our definition of The Graph, a node might be a function (FaaS or microservice), a stream processing job, an AI Agent, or some kind of third-party service. An edge might be an RPC channel, a queue or a topic. For a workflow to be reliable, it must be able to make prog...
