Starting with Agent Substrate v0.5.0 (latest build at the time of writing this blog post on 10/17/2026), you can now run multiple Actors within one Worker (Pod). Before this
The number one rule of scaling is ensuring that you have more than enough resources readily available to consume, digest, and schedule what you need to run. In the case of agentic workloads,
High Availability (HA) is the cornerstone of an efficient, scalable, performant system. Without it, zero downtime and migrating/scaling state for systems would be impossible. In this case, the "system" is
Any time AI is spoken about, it's followed up with "and this is how much it's costing us". Cost management/optimization along with overall optimization of Agentic