Orchestration Costs Hit Cloud Bottom: Core Feature, Not Optional Luxury

When the autonomous trading desk at a $2 B hedge fund missed a 250 ms price swing on 2024‑03‑15, the root cause was a hidden dead‑lock in its agent coordination layer. Most teams ship a fire‑and‑forget API call and call it a day. It looks clean until you cross the 50‑agent threshold and the invisibl