Agentic AI

The Rise of Agentic SLAs: How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Define, Negotiate, and Enforce Reliability Contracts for Multi-Agent AI Systems Through 2027

Agentic AI

The Rise of Agentic SLAs: How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Define, Negotiate, and Enforce Reliability Contracts for Multi-Agent AI Systems Through 2027

When a distributed microservice misses its 99.9% uptime target, the playbook is well-worn: check the dashboards, page the on-call engineer, open a post-mortem ticket. The contract is clear. The failure mode is understood. The fix is, at least in theory, deterministic. Now imagine that same post-mortem, except the "

By Scott Miller
The Silent Data Bleed: How Kestrel Financial Rebuilt Its AI Anomaly Detection Pipeline After Multi-Tenant Inference Endpoints Exposed Customer Context Across Sessions

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The Silent Data Bleed: How Kestrel Financial Rebuilt Its AI Anomaly Detection Pipeline After Multi-Tenant Inference Endpoints Exposed Customer Context Across Sessions

In early 2026, the engineering team at Kestrel Financial, a mid-size fintech serving roughly 340,000 retail and SMB customers across North America, made a discovery that stopped their roadmap cold. Their flagship AI-powered transaction anomaly detection system, which had been praised internally for its precision and speed, was silently

By Scott Miller
How to Design and Implement a Cross-Organizational Agent Permission Boundary System for Shared Multi-Agent Infrastructure in 2026

Multi-Agent Systems

How to Design and Implement a Cross-Organizational Agent Permission Boundary System for Shared Multi-Agent Infrastructure in 2026

Shared multi-agent infrastructure is the new reality for large enterprises. As backend platform teams provision a single, centralized agent runtime to serve multiple business units simultaneously, a critical and often underestimated problem emerges: how do you enforce meaningful, auditable, and tamper-resistant permission boundaries between agents that belong to entirely different

By Scott Miller
5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Believe About Deterministic Testing in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Multi-Agent Systems

5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Believe About Deterministic Testing in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Agentic AI has crossed the threshold from experimental curiosity to production reality. As of early 2026, enterprise backend teams across industries are deploying multi-agent systems where large language models (LLMs) orchestrate tool calls, delegate subtasks, reason over live data, and produce outputs that feed directly into business-critical workflows. The age

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

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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