Part 5 · The graph of loops — Quiz

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1. What an authority edge is for

Two loops watch the same deployment queue. A canary loop halts a rollout when error rates climb; a schedule loop resumes anything that has been halted for more than an hour, on the theory that stuck rollouts are usually stuck for stale reasons. Last month a genuinely bad build shipped: canary halted it at 14:02, schedule resumed it at 15:03, and nobody had written anything down about which of those two loops the deployment system should believe. A proposal arrives to give the schedule loop a smarter rule — resume only if the error rate has since recovered. Why is that the wrong layer to fix this at?