@asmah2107: The reading list that taught me how to think about agentic architecture. Bookmark this. 1. Brewer's CAP Theorem (2000) …
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A curated reading list of foundational and modern resources for understanding agentic architecture, blending classic distributed systems concepts with current AI agent patterns.
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The reading list that taught me how to think about agentic architecture.
Bookmark this.
- Brewer’s CAP Theorem (2000) — trade-off thinking
- Netflix Hystrix docs — circuit breaker pattern
- Martin Fowler: Saga Pattern — distributed rollback
- The Twelve-Factor App — stateless service design
- AWS Well-Architected Framework — blast radius thinking
- “Thinking in Systems” — Donella Meadows
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Kleppmann
- Google SRE Book Ch.13 — cascading failures
- OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025) — agent attack surfaces
- Anthropic: Building Effective Agents (2024)
- LangGraph docs — stateful agent patterns
- Microsoft AutoGen paper — multi-agent orchestration
- Gartner: Agentic AI Hype Cycle (2025)
- EU AI Act Article 14 — human oversight requirements
Classic distributed systems stuff. Applied to the next layer of the stack.
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