Software Engineering Daily Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda
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Apr 16, 2026 
Eric Broda, veteran software practitioner and co-author of Agentic Mesh, focuses on enterprise-ready architectures for multi-agent systems. He discusses turning agents into distributed infrastructure. Topics include orchestration and state management, trust and certification frameworks, observability and explainability, event-driven agent communication, and practical enterprise use cases.
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Enterprise Gap Stops Agent Adoption
- Enterprises fail to move agents from lab to production because agents lack enterprise-grade features like security, observability, and explainability.
- Eric Broda says data scientists build useful agents but often miss distributed-systems and operational requirements required for scale.
Design Agents For The Ecosystem
- Design agents with the ecosystem in mind, not just as single-user tools, by adding state, long-running conversations, and inter-agent communication primitives.
- Eric recommends packaging agent components as microservices so they can run in Kubernetes and participate in a larger mesh.
Protocols Need An Event Streaming Substrate
- Protocols like MCP and A2A are foundational for agent collaboration but not complete solutions; they need secure, evolving standards and integration with lower-level comms.
- Broda argues event streaming (e.g., Kafka) provides publish-subscribe, naming, and replay benefits that fit agent ecosystems better than plain HTTP request-response.
