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

Slides and Video https://speaking.gamov.io/ X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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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As Always Have a Nice Day… X/Bluesky: @gamussa