A user asks: “Review this supplier invoice, verify that everything looks correct, and prepare it for payment.” From the user’s perspective, this is one request. But imagine the system decides to use several AI agents: At first glance, this looks…
A user asks an AI agent: “Pay this invoice, update the records, and let the supplier know when it’s done.” It sounds like one business operation. From the user’s perspective, it is one request. From the system’s perspective, it may…
A customer asks: “How much can I safely spend today?” An LLM can understand the question. It can explain the customer’s account. It can summarize recent transactions. It can even reason about what information might be relevant. But there is…
For years, we learned to think about distributed systems in a particular way. A request enters a service. The service calls another service. That service may call a database, a message broker, a payment provider, or another internal system. Somewhere…
At first, the API was just an interface. A way for one component to call another. Nothing more. Then the system grew. The monolith became multiple services. Teams became independent. Deployments became more frequent. And suddenly almost every important business…
The transaction used to be simple. At least, it looked simple from the application’s perspective. A customer placed an order. The system processed the payment. The order was created. Inventory was reserved. The ledger was updated. The customer received a…
