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Agentic Systems July 6, 2026 • 5 min read

Building Production AI Agents with MCP: A Complete Architecture Guide (2026)

Learn how to architect, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Covers state management, security, and scalability.

#ai-agents#mcp#architecture#llmops

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Agentic Systems Aug 20, 2026 6 min read

AI Agent Observability: Logs, Traces, and Metrics in Production

A complete technical reference and implementation guide to observing agentic workflows, tracking LLM token costs, logging reasoning trajectories, tracing nested tool calls, and monitoring system metrics in production.

#ai-agents#observability#opentelemetry
Agentic Systems Aug 20, 2026 7 min read

Event-Driven AI Agents with Kafka

An architectural guide to designing scalable, asynchronous AI agents using Apache Kafka to handle long-running model inferences, tool executions, and backpressure in production.

#ai-agents#kafka#event-driven
AI Engineering Aug 14, 2026 4 min read

The Shift to Agentic AI: Why Enterprise Architecture is Moving Beyond Chatbots

Chatbots are dead. Welcome to the era of Agentic AI. Explore how enterprises are deploying autonomous agents for complex workflows, the architectural shift required, and the rise of specialized inference models like Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.

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Building LLM products, researching multi-agent orchestration, and setting up secure deployment pipelines. Formerly writing DevOps playbooks, now mapping the production AI stack.

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