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Agent AutonomyPermalink
Autonomy is what makes AI agents reliable building blocks.It means an agent is a self-contained unit of management, deployment, and ownership that can operate independently while participating in a larger system. It controls its own state, evolves on its own schedule, and ...
An Interface Design Test for Collaborative AgentsPermalink
An 'agent' is a participant in a collaboration that autonomously solves a given aspect of a problem in the context of a system. An agent can be implement by a deterministic software module, by a person (human-in-the-loop), or by an AI component (AI-in-the-loop). Some ...
CNCF xRegistry 1.0 RC1 - What. Why. What might be next.Permalink
Two weeks ago, during a very busy conference week that saw CNCF KubeCon, Hannover Messe, and FabCon all take place simultaneously, with me being in Hannover, the CNCF Serverless Working Group that I am part of, released the first release candidate of xRegistry. This is a ...
A thought experiment: "New JSON Schema"Permalink
JSON Schema has been in development since ca. 2009 and has gone through several iterations. Yet, there is still no IETF RFC anyone could really lean on as a standard. Practitioners are largely using 'Draft 7' of JSON Schema and the subsequent releases have seen comparatively ...
H1/2025 Conference session proposals Permalink
I just put a few new session titles/abstracts into my Sessionize speaker profile for the coming year: 1. Bringing Clarity to Event Streams: Enabling Analytics and AI Through Rich Metadata ...