Navigating Concurrency Challenges with the Actor Model

The conversation around agentic AI is stuck on prompts and model capabilities. But for architects in the trenches, that’s a dangerous misdirection. The real, career-defining challenge isn't the AI — it's the distributed system that hosts it. Moving from a single-agent demo to a production-grade swarm of autonomous agents forces us to confront the most fundamental problems in software architecture.

In this episode, we deconstruct the hype and get to the engineering reality. We explore the critical architectural patterns that determine success or failure, from the centralized control of an Orchestrator-Worker model to the chaotic elegance of event-driven Choreography. We tackle the brutal trade-offs of state management through the lens of the CAP theorem, asking how to build for consistency when an agent's "memory" is scattered across a dozen services.

We then dive into resilience, adapting the classic Saga pattern for a world where failure isn't just a network timeout, but a failure of an agent's reasoning. Finally, we discuss why the Actor Model provides a superior paradigm for managing concurrency and how a robust governance framework isn't an afterthought, but a non-negotiable prerequisite for security and control.

Join us as we move beyond the prompt and apply the hard-won discipline of distributed systems engineering to the next frontier of AI. This is the conversation for architects who build systems that last.

Thank you for listening! ❤️

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EPISODE LINKS (ORIGINAL BLOG POSTS)

Find the full blog post and all the calculations here: Agentic AI: Distributed Systems Challenges.

This podcast episode is an AI-narrated version of the original text-based articles from Dmytro's personal blog, which you can find at ⁠⁠www.golodiuk.com/news⁠⁠

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Dmytro Golodiuk is a highly experienced technology professional with over 17 years in the software industry. His proficiency spans cloud computing, enterprise platforms, software development, and integration technologies, with deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem. Dmytro combines his technical knowledge with formal Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF and ArchiMate to deliver robust and practical solutions.

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