As I mentioned in my previous post , I traveled to San Jose at the end of May for the ACM CAIS conference. On Day 0, I gave a very short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop. This post is the promised summary of our paper, "A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agentic Data Systems" , joint work with Aleksey Charapko (University of New Hampshire) and Akshat Vig (MongoDB). Metastability is critical for building the next generation of distributed systems Our story starts wit