Why Your Agents Need Events, Not Endpoints
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Viktor Gamov @Con uentInc, June 2025
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Agents are the new apps Dharmesh Shah CTO, HubSpot
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Agents are the new microservices Viktor Gamov DA, Confluent
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Viktor GAMOV Principal Developer Advocate | Confluent Author | Manning’s Kafka in Action Java Champion
THE CLOUD CONNECTIVITY COMPANY
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Kong Confidential
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Slides and Video https://speaking.gamov.io/
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Task: Project the sales of socks for the next 3 months
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Agents at Scale are Complex Systems
They don’t exist in isolation, they have many dependencies
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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
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Complexity Grows with Multi-Agent Systems Multi-agent systems can end up with a large number of inter-dependencies
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Scaling Microservices Has a Similar Set of Challenges Breaking the monolith created new challenges, like tight coupling and brittle dependencies
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Solution: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Systems can react to events asynchronously instead of waiting for a response, improving performance and resilience.
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Tightly Coupled Agent Dependencies Don’t Scale Agent infrastructure ends up being a labyrinth of brittle interdepencies
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Solution: Event-Driven Agents
Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability
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Solution: Event-Driven Agents
Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability
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Data Streaming: The Shared Language of Agents Continuously ingests, processes, and governs streams of data in real-time
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