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The CNCF xRegistry working group has shipped Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the xRegistry specification set — the last feedback window before 1.0. If you run anything event-driven, this is worth 5 minutes. xRegistry can now describe what you send to, and expect back from, ...

Just before I vanish into the holiday break, I bundled up the release of Avrotize 3.0, a major update that introduces support for JSON Structure – a new intermediate schema format that bridges the gap between JSON Schema's familarity and expressiveness and Avro's type safety. ...

This primer introduces JSON Structure, a modern, strictly typed data definition language that resembles JSON Schema, but has very different basic design principles. JSON Structure focuses on defining data types with clear, deterministic constraints while supporting extensions ...

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 '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 ...