Scott Miller

7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Navigate AI Agent Audit Trails, Explainability Mandates, and Cross-Border Data Residency by End of 2026

AI regulation

7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Navigate AI Agent Audit Trails, Explainability Mandates, and Cross-Border Data Residency by End of 2026

The pressure is no longer hypothetical. In early 2026, enterprise backend teams across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS are waking up to a regulatory reality that most compliance roadmaps from two years ago simply did not anticipate: AI agents are being treated as accountable actors, not just tools. The

By Scott Miller
A Beginner's Guide to MCP (Model Context Protocol): What It Is, Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Adopting It in 2026, and How to Evaluate Whether It Belongs in Your Agent Infrastructure

MCP

A Beginner's Guide to MCP (Model Context Protocol): What It Is, Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Adopting It in 2026, and How to Evaluate Whether It Belongs in Your Agent Infrastructure

Imagine hiring a brilliant new employee who has read every book ever written, can write code, summarize documents, and reason through complex problems at lightning speed. Now imagine that same employee sitting in a room with no phone, no computer, and no door. That's essentially what a large

By Scott Miller
Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Getting Multi-Agent Context Window Management Wrong in 2026: The 7 Myths About Token Budget Allocation Across Agent Handoffs That Are Silently Degrading Long-Horizon Task Performance

Multi-Agent Systems

Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Getting Multi-Agent Context Window Management Wrong in 2026: The 7 Myths About Token Budget Allocation Across Agent Handoffs That Are Silently Degrading Long-Horizon Task Performance

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside enterprise AI teams right now. Pipelines that looked elegant on the whiteboard are silently underperforming in production. Long-horizon tasks that should take four agent hops are ballooning to twelve. Costs are climbing. Accuracy at the tail end of complex workflows is dropping. And

By Scott Miller
Stateful Containers vs. Serverless Invocations vs. Persistent Daemons: Why Enterprise Teams Are Choosing the Wrong Runtime for Multi-Agent AI Workflows

multi-agent AI

Stateful Containers vs. Serverless Invocations vs. Persistent Daemons: Why Enterprise Teams Are Choosing the Wrong Runtime for Multi-Agent AI Workflows

There is a quiet architectural crisis unfolding inside enterprise backend teams in 2026. It does not announce itself with outages or cascading failures, at least not immediately. It shows up as subtle, maddening bugs: agents that forget what they were doing mid-task, orchestration pipelines that silently drop context between steps,

By Scott Miller
7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Rearchitect Multi-Agent Cost Attribution and Chargeback Systems as AI Spend Accountability Becomes a Board-Level Mandate

AI FinOps

7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Rearchitect Multi-Agent Cost Attribution and Chargeback Systems as AI Spend Accountability Becomes a Board-Level Mandate

Something quietly seismic is happening inside enterprise IT departments right now. The same organizations that spent 2024 and 2025 racing to deploy AI agents are now staring down a very uncomfortable question from their CFOs and boards: Who, exactly, is paying for all of this? Multi-agent AI systems, by their

By Scott Miller
Synchronous Blocking vs. Async Fire-and-Forget vs. Saga-Pattern Compensation: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Picking the Wrong Transaction Model for Multi-Agent Workflows

Multi-Agent Systems

Synchronous Blocking vs. Async Fire-and-Forget vs. Saga-Pattern Compensation: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Picking the Wrong Transaction Model for Multi-Agent Workflows

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside enterprise backend teams in 2026. As agentic AI workflows have matured from experimental prototypes into production-grade systems, a new class of failure mode has emerged: one that has nothing to do with model quality, prompt engineering, or GPU throughput. It has everything to

By Scott Miller