Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda

AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large scale ecosystems of collaborating agents embedded directly into business processes. However, multi agent architectures introduce serious challenges around orchestration, state management, trust, governance, and observability. Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and he's the coauthor of the new O'Reilly book, Agentic Mesh, the Gen AI Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. In this episode, Eric joined Sean Falconer to discuss the architectural challenges of deploying agents as core infrastructure, how distributed computing principles apply to multi agent systems, why trust and explainability are foundational, and what enterprises may look like as agents become full participants in business processes. This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer. Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him. Eric, welcome to the show. Well, Sean, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Thanks so much for being here. So I want to start off. You you wrote a great book, The Gen AI Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. Now you mentioned me as the author. I'm just gonna point out a very quick thing here. I had the pleasure of actually writing this book with my son. So this is a father son team. Davis Broda and Eric Broda were the authors. And we're absolutely pleased that it's coming out in the March. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Sorry for for, missing that. I I knew that you coauthored it with another Broda, but I wasn't sure. I realized I didn't realize it was your son. That's great. I've actually been lately, one of my fun things I've been doing with my son, who's only five, so it'd be incredible if we wrote a book together, but has been I've been taking his ideas and using quad code to implement games based on his ideas that that he then gets to play. So lots of things coming. Father, sons working together, you know, agents at all. It's all coming together now. Well, it's kind of funny you mentioned that because I think the times, as they say, as Bob Dylan said, times they are a change and the speed of change is incredible. Whether it's codex, Claude Code with your son, we're using them obviously on a daily basis. The things are changing so rapidly that this is truly exciting times. And I think the book is perhaps at the right place at the right time right now. Yeah. Well, I'm kinda curious about why why a book, you know, given that things are changing so fast. Like, literally, the entire, like, developer experience has shifted in the last, like, two to four months alone. So is it old news by the time something like a book comes out? Yeah. Well, that's a great question. It's kind of funny because, I was talking I was on a podcast with Joe Rice. …