What agentic AI borrowed from microservices (and made worse)
Apr 23, 2026

Summary
This post draws parallels between microservices architectures and agentic AI, highlighting how concepts like decomposition, orchestration, event-driven architectures, and state management are reappearing in the AI space. It specifically discusses how Temporal's durable execution model addresses the challenges of long-running AI workflows, short-term memory, and the need for event-driven architectures, positioning Temporal as a solution for building reliable and scalable AI agent systems.