Why Your Agents Need Events, Not Endpoints
A presentation at AgentCon 2025 in in San Francisco, CA, USA by Viktor Gamov
Why Your Agents Need Events, Not Endpoints fl Viktor Gamov @Con uentInc, June 2025
“ Agents are the new apps Dharmesh Shah CTO, HubSpot X/Bluesky: @gamussa
“ Agents are the new microservices Viktor Gamov DA, Confluent X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Viktor GAMOV Principal Developer Advocate | Confluent Author | Manning’s Kafka in Action Java Champion THE CLOUD CONNECTIVITY COMPANY X/Bluesky: @gamussa Kong Confidential
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Task: Project the sales of socks for the next 3 months X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Agents at Scale are Complex Systems They don’t exist in isolation, they have many dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Beyond Single Agent to Multi-Agent Some problems are too complicated for a single agent to solve, it requires a team Single Agent Team of Agents X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Complexity Grows with Multi-Agent Systems Multi-agent systems can end up with a large number of inter-dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Scaling Microservices Has a Similar Set of Challenges Breaking the monolith created new challenges, like tight coupling and brittle dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Solution: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Systems can react to events asynchronously instead of waiting for a response, improving performance and resilience. X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Tightly Coupled Agent Dependencies Don’t Scale Agent infrastructure ends up being a labyrinth of brittle interdepencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Solution: Event-Driven Agents Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Solution: Event-Driven Agents Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability X/Bluesky: @gamussa
Data Streaming: The Shared Language of Agents Continuously ingests, processes, and governs streams of data in real-time X/Bluesky: @gamussa
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Your autonomous agents work great in demos. Then production hits: your customer service bot waits 200ms for inventory data while angry customers disconnect. Your fraud detector queues behind slow API calls while transactions slip through. The problem? You’re building intelligent systems on request/response architecture—like trying to run a Formula 1 race on city streets. Event-driven architecture is the highway your agents need. Instead of asking permission for every piece of data, agents tap into real-time event streams and share context instantly. No more bottlenecks. No more waiting.
