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Speaking at Google Cloud Next 2022 — the...

30 minutes on stage. The talk title looked tactical; the talk underneath was about why most microservices migrations fail and how to set up the one that doesn't.

Storage

Where conversation history actually lives — local session state vs service-managed.

Local session state via InMemoryHistoryProvider re-sends the transcript each run; service-managed keeps only a remote id. Persist the whole AgentSession to survive restarts.

A2A · Polling for Task Completion

How to drive a slow remote agent that answers with a continuation token, then poll that token to completion instead of blocking on one long call.

Ask a remote A2A agent with AllowBackgroundResponses, get a continuation token, and poll with WithContinuationToken and no messages until the token clears.

Google Summer of Code mentor 2019-2026 — what I learned...

Seven cycles. Ten-plus students. Most shipped, a few didn't, all of them taught me something about engineering culture. Notes on what works for mentors and what works for students.

Session

Carrying conversation state across separate agent.run() calls with AgentSession.

AgentSession carries history across separate agent.run() calls; pass the same session every time and serialize it with to_dict()/from_dict() to resume.

a2a · Remote Skills as Function Tools

How to discover a remote A2A agent's advertised skills and hand each one to a local host agent as an ordinary function tool.

Resolve a remote A2A agent card, turn each advertised skill into a function tool with derived names and descriptions, and hand them to a local Foundry host agent.

Gocloud — designing a unified API library for AWS, GCP,...

What it actually takes to build a unified cloud API library — and why "write once, run anywhere" still doesn't quite work, even for the patterns where it almost does.

Code Act

Letting the agent write and run one Python program instead of looping tool-by-tool.

CodeAct adds a single execute_code tool so the agent writes one sandboxed Python program calling tools via call_tool, wired through the Hyperlight provider with a fallback to direct tools.

05 · First Workflow

The other primitive: a directed graph of executors wired by edges, running fully offline with no model, no credential, no Foundry.

Wire two executors into an uppercase to reverse pipeline with the fluent workflow builder and run it fully offline via inproc.Default, iterating ExecutorCompletedEvents.

Mapping a multi-agent platform to the GCP PCSE blueprint

Every Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam bullet, mapped to a file path in an RBI FREE-AI aligned Go platform. Where the implementation matches, where the analog substitutes, and where the honest gaps are.

Harness

The batteries-included autonomous agent pipeline from create_harness_agent.

Assemble a batteries-included autonomous agent with create_harness_agent: a function-calling loop, todo list, plan/execute modes, and compaction, each individually switchable via disable flags.

04 · Memory

A custom ContextProvider gives the agent memory: it reads stored facts before a run and learns new ones after — all through the Session.

A custom ContextProvider wires Provide and Store hooks around every run so the agent reads remembered facts before the call and learns new ones after, all in the Session.