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Agentic-First Architecture is where I write: agentic AI and AI-led delivery, composable and MACH architecture, and the discipline of building teams and platforms that run without you. It is published on Substack; this page lists what is there.
Recent posts
- The Great Rebalancing: Cloud, On-Prem, and Edge in Agentic-First Architecture
The agentic era isn’t ending the cloud. It’s ending the assumption that cloud is the right answer for every workload.
- Data Architecture for Agentic-First Systems: Why Your Data Strategy Is Your Agent Strategy
Bad data in a traditional system causes bad reports. Bad data in an agentic system causes autonomous bad decisions at scale - thousands of them, compounding, before any human notices.
- Choosing the Right LLM for Agentic-First Systems: Why Model Selection Is an Architectural Decision, Not a Vendor Conversation
When agents — not humans — are the primary consumers of your LLM, every assumption about model selection changes.
- The Human Oversight Hierarchy: Why the Precision of Your Governance Language Determines the Precision of Your Governance Architecture
In the agentic era, “we have human oversight” is a meaningless statement. The question that matters is: where in the loop does the human sit — and who owns the decision?
- The Agentic-First Reference Architecture: The Blueprint Every Enterprise Architect Needs
Protocols tell you how agents communicate. Architecture tells you where everything lives, how it connects, and what governs it.
- A2A: The Missing Protocol for Agent-to-Agent Collaboration in Agentic-First Architecture
MCP taught agents how to use tools. A2A teaches them how to work together.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Protocol Layer That Makes Agentic-First Architecture Possible
If Agentic-First Architecture is the paradigm, MCP is the plumbing. And in enterprise technology, the plumbing determines what's possible.
- From Monolith to MACH to... What? The Case for Agentic-First Architecture
The next paradigm shift in enterprise platform design isn't just about adding AI — it's about making agents the foundation.
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