When to Build a Custom Agent Runtime From First Principles
Build a custom runtime only if you control the identity layer or own the product itself.
Priya Nanthakumar
Orchestration Weekly — Page 2
Self-Hosted vs. Managed Agent Orchestration TCO Analysis
Hidden operational costs determine the true expense of agent orchestration deployments.
Priya Nanthakumar
Agent Framework Maturity Signals Engineering Teams Should Track
Five behavioral stages reveal whether your agent rollout is maturing or stalling.
DeShawn Okafor
MCP Protocol Support Across Major Agent Frameworks
Major frameworks now support MCP natively, but implementation depth varies widely.
Priya Nanthakumar
Durable Execution Engines for Long-Running Agent Tasks
Surviving production requires runtime guarantees that model capability alone cannot provide.
Marcus Delacroix
Context Management Strategies in Multi-Agent Harnesses
Context drift between agents breaks pipelines even when each one works perfectly alone.
DeShawn Okafor
Purpose-Built Agent Runtimes vs. General-Purpose Cloud Functions
Marcus Delacroix
Latency Tradeoffs of Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Tool Calls in Agents
Parallel tool calls cut latency, but serializing dependent calls matters more than speed.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
LLM Provider Failover and Routing in Agent Infrastructure
Autonomous agents need stateful failover, not the stateless design built for single requests.
Priya Nanthakumar
Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoints in Autonomous Agent Workflows
Building human approval gates into agent workflows prevents catastrophic mistakes.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Tool Registry Design for Multi-Agent Systems
Governance and discovery infrastructure matter more than the directory itself.
Priya Nanthakumar
Self-Correcting Memory and State Freshness in Agent Systems
Agents retrieving outdated facts with confidence can ship packages to wrong addresses.
Priya Nanthakumar