AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises.

The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scale ecosystems of collaborating agents embedded directly into business processes.

However, multi-agent architectures introduce serious challenges around orchestration,

state management, trust, governance, and observability. Eric Broda is a veteran of the software

industry, and he's the co-author of the new O'Reilly book, Agentic Mesh, the Gen AI-powered

autonomous agent ecosystem.

In this episode, Eric joined Sean Falconer to discuss the architectural challenges of deploying agents as core infrastructure, how distributed computing principles apply to multi-agent systems, why trust and explainability are foundational, and what enterprises may look like as agents become

full participants in business processes.

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

Music Eric, welcome to be here.

Well, Sean's great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, thanks so much for being here.

So I want to start off.

You wrote a great book, Agentic Mesh, the Gen. The-powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. Now, you mentioned me as the author. I'm just going to point out a very quick thing here. I had the pleasure of actually writing this book with my son. So this is a father's son team. Davis Broda and Eric Broda were the authors. And we're absolutely pleased that is coming out in the first week in March. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Sorry for missing that. I knew that you co-authored it with another Broda, but I wasn't sure, I didn't realize it was your son. That's great. I've actually been lately one of my fun things I've been doing

with my son, who's only five, so it would be incredible if we wrote a book together, but has been,

I've been taking his ideas and using quad code to implement games based on his ideas that he then

gets to play. So lots of things coming, father, sons working together, you know, agents and all,

it's all coming together now.

Well, it's kind of funny you mention that because I think the times, as they say,

as Bob Dylan said, the times they are a change. And the speed of change is incredible,

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