Why it matters

Event-driven agents unlock async patterns. Understanding shapes reactive architectures.

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The architecture

Consumer: Kafka consumer feeds event to agent.

Producer: agent emits results.

Kafka + agentsEvent topicKafka sourceAgent processesconsumerResult topicproducerHandles async workloads and decouples agent from callers
Kafka integration patterns.
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How it works end to end

Offset management: track processed events.

Consumer groups: parallelize across agent instances.

Backpressure: agent slower than event rate; scaling.

Schema: Avro or Protobuf for events.