Scott Miller

FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Building Multi-Agent Systems Actually Need to Know About MCP Version Negotiation and Backward Compatibility in 2026

Model Context Protocol

FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Building Multi-Agent Systems Actually Need to Know About MCP Version Negotiation and Backward Compatibility in 2026

If you've spent any time in the enterprise AI backend trenches lately, you already know the feeling: your multi-agent system works beautifully in your staging environment, then you wire it up to a third-party MCP server and suddenly your orchestration layer is throwing capability mismatches, silent fallbacks, and

By Scott Miller
How Enterprise Backend Teams Should Design Multi-Agent Graceful Degradation Strategies When Foundation Model Providers Deprecate or Version-Lock Core Capabilities Mid-Pipeline

multi-agent AI

How Enterprise Backend Teams Should Design Multi-Agent Graceful Degradation Strategies When Foundation Model Providers Deprecate or Version-Lock Core Capabilities Mid-Pipeline

There is a quiet crisis playing out inside enterprise AI teams right now. It does not make headlines, but it costs engineering hours, breaks production pipelines, and erodes trust in AI-powered products faster than almost any other operational failure. The crisis is this: a foundation model provider silently version-locks a

By Scott Miller
FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Need to Know About Designing Multi-Agent Systems for Physical AI and Edge Deployment in 2026

Multi-Agent Systems

FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Need to Know About Designing Multi-Agent Systems for Physical AI and Edge Deployment in 2026

The year 2026 has brought a reckoning for enterprise backend teams. After years of building multi-agent systems that lived comfortably in the cloud, the new frontier is ruthlessly physical: robots on factory floors, inference running on microcontrollers, autonomous vehicles making split-second decisions, and warehouse management agents that cannot afford a

By Scott Miller
FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Building Multi-Agent Systems Actually Need to Know About Agent-to-Agent Contract Testing When Downstream Skill Interfaces Change Without Notice

Multi-Agent Systems

FAQ: What Enterprise Backend Teams Building Multi-Agent Systems Actually Need to Know About Agent-to-Agent Contract Testing When Downstream Skill Interfaces Change Without Notice

If you have spent any time building multi-agent systems at the enterprise level, you have almost certainly lived through this scenario: a downstream agent or skill service quietly ships a new version, its input schema shifts, a required field gets renamed or dropped, and suddenly your orchestrator agent starts hallucinating

By Scott Miller
Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Designing Multi-Agent Testing Environments Wrong: The Case Against Shared Staging Clusters and What Isolated Agent Sandbox Architecture Actually Requires in 2026

Multi-Agent Systems

Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Designing Multi-Agent Testing Environments Wrong: The Case Against Shared Staging Clusters and What Isolated Agent Sandbox Architecture Actually Requires in 2026

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside enterprise engineering organizations right now. Teams that spent 2024 and 2025 racing to ship multi-agent AI systems into production are now discovering a brutal truth: their testing infrastructure was never built for agents. It was built for APIs. And those two things are

By Scott Miller
7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Rearchitect Agent Infrastructure Around Physical AI and Edge Deployment Constraints

Agentic AI

7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Rearchitect Agent Infrastructure Around Physical AI and Edge Deployment Constraints

Something significant is happening in enterprise infrastructure circles right now, and most public conversation has not caught up to it yet. The assumption that agentic AI workloads belong in the cloud is quietly being dismantled, floor by floor, by the physical and operational realities of deploying autonomous agents at scale.

By Scott Miller