Why Your Agents Need Events, Not Endpoints

A presentation at AgentCon 2025 in June 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA by Viktor Gamov

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Why Your Agents Need Events, Not Endpoints fl Viktor Gamov @Con uentInc, June 2025

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“ Agents are the new apps Dharmesh Shah CTO, HubSpot X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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“ Agents are the new microservices Viktor Gamov DA, Confluent X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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

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Task: Project the sales of socks for the next 3 months X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Agents at Scale are Complex Systems They don’t exist in isolation, they have many dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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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 X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Complexity Grows with Multi-Agent Systems Multi-agent systems can end up with a large number of inter-dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Scaling Microservices Has a Similar Set of Challenges Breaking the monolith created new challenges, like tight coupling and brittle dependencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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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. X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Tightly Coupled Agent Dependencies Don’t Scale Agent infrastructure ends up being a labyrinth of brittle interdepencies X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Solution: Event-Driven Agents Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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Solution: Event-Driven Agents Agents emit and listen for events enabling agility and scalability X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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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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One More Thing… X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/built-multi-agent-research-system X/Bluesky: @gamussa

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