Abhimanyu Selvan

Event-Driven Architecture: Breaking Conversational Barriers with Distributed AI Agents

If AI agents are the new apps, what's their operating system? See how event-driven architecture provides a scalable foundation for complex agentic interactions.

Event-Driven Architecture: Breaking Conversational Barriers with Distributed AI Agents
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The core challenge of scaling AI agent communication

The speaker introduces the central problem of how to architect communication between thousands of AI agents operating at a global scale.

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Understanding the shift to the agentic era

AI is evolving from reactive systems to an agentic era where software components plan and execute tasks autonomously to achieve high-level goals.

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The core components that define an AI agent

An AI agent is defined by its persona, perception, short and long-term memory, and the tools it can use to perform actions.

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Why event-driven architecture is key for agents

Scaling AI agents presents challenges in state synchronization and observability, making event-driven architecture a necessary paradigm for asynchronous communication.

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Introducing the ride-hailing application demo

A pre-recorded demo showcases an Uber-like application with robo-taxis and users interacting asynchronously, powered by an event-driven backend.

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The system design of the event-driven architecture

The architecture uses Kafka topics for users, taxis, and rides, with an orchestrator agent processing events and a simulator using Mapbox for routing.

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Live demo of the robo-taxi simulation in Berlin

A live demonstration spins up containerized services to simulate users requesting rides and robo-taxis being dispatched in real-time in Berlin.

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The danger of over-engineering with LLMs

A key lesson learned was to avoid unnecessary LLM calls that increase cost and latency, emphasizing the need for observability and pragmatic design.

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Scaling the simulation across multiple cities

The final demo showcases the architecture's scalability by running simultaneous simulations in both Amsterdam and Berlin.

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