The original title is "Deploying Agents: Containers, Orchestration, and Scaling the Loop"

Short summary

Deploy AI agents by matching patterns to execution time: stateless HTTP for <30s tasks, WebSocket/SSE for 30s–5m, queue+worker for 5m+. Always use secrets management, pin dependencies, and split health probes; never hold open HTTP requests for long agent runs because proxies, CDNs, and load balancers will timeout unpredictably.

• •Agent deployment shape is determined by longest step, not average—pick pattern accordingly
• •Use stateless HTTP < 30s, streaming WebSocket 30s–5m, queue+worker 5m+; never hold requests open for 40+ minutes
• •Pin exact SDK versions, inject secrets at runtime, split liveness (cheap) and readiness (expensive) health probes

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