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Partner agent goes offline

Your travel agent books hotels through a partner’s agent over A2A. The partner is down from 15 s to 35 s.

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Your goals

Success ≥ 95% of tasks, p99 ≤ 90 s.

The traffic

2 requests a second for 45 seconds: 100% task (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Agent API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Agent APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Agent orchestrator.Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.3 replicas × 500 slots · timeout 180 s
Agent orchestratorAgent orchestratorAgent API calls it.Calls Model, Partner agent (A2A).An agent loops: think, call a tool, read the result, repeat until done.400 slots · 2 steps
ModelLLM endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.300 streams
Partner agent (A2A)A2A agent endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Agent-to-agent protocols let agents from different teams or vendors hand work to each other.50 slots · 100,000 calls/min

Hints

Try it first. Open one hint at a time if you get stuck.

Hint 1

Treat another agent like any external API.

Hint 2

Have a second partner (or a fallback path).

One way to solve it

Add a fallback A2A partner.

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