Title: "Stop Restarting Failed Pipelines At 7 AM" Duration: ~7 minutes Style: Screen recording + talking head
[SCREEN: Phone notification at 3:14 AM — "Pipeline failed." User wakes up, checks — service is fine, just a 2-second blip.]
VILIUS (voiceover): "3:14 AM. Pipeline failed. I check — the service is fine. Two-second network blip. My pipeline had one attempt and quit. I was the retry mechanism."
[SCREEN: Same scenario, agent retries 3 times, succeeds, no alert sent.]
VILIUS (on camera): "After resilience: the blip is absorbed. I never hear about it. Here's how to make your agent not quit on the first failure."
[SCREEN: Three error categories — Transient (retry), Permanent (escalate), Unknown (retry once)]
VILIUS (voiceover): "Step one: categorise errors. Transient — network timeouts, rate limits, 503s. These will probably work on the second attempt. Retry with backoff. Permanent — auth failures, missing dependencies, config errors. Don't retry. Escalate immediately. Unknown — everything else. Retry once. If it fails again, escalate."
[SCREEN: Code — retry_with_backoff function with exponential delays]
VILIUS (on camera): "Exponential backoff: two seconds, four seconds, eight seconds. Three attempts max. This handles 90% of transient failures without waking you up."
[SCREEN: Pipeline detects missing dependency → pip install → verifies → continues → logs action]
VILIUS (voiceover): "Beyond retry: self-healing. The agent doesn't just report the error — it fixes it. Missing Python package? pip install. Cache corruption? Clear and retry. Service needs restart? Restart it."
[SCREEN: Self-healing rules — Green/Amber zone only, always log, escalate if fix fails]
VILIUS (on camera): "Rules: the fix must be deterministic, in Green or Amber zone, and logged. I wake up, check the pipeline log: 'Self-healed: installed missing httpx. Tests passed. No action needed.' Thirty seconds instead of thirty minutes."
VILIUS (voiceover): "Resilience handles failures. Next: Verify — because sometimes the agent succeeds but gets it wrong. Automated gates that catch problems before they reach production."
VILIUS (on camera): "Today: add retry to your health check. Three attempts, exponential backoff. You'll stop getting woken up for transient blips by tomorrow morning."