https://jamal.dev/categories/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on Jamal YusufHugoen-usWed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jamal.dev/writing/go-advantage-agentic-systems/Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jamal.dev/writing/go-advantage-agentic-systems/<p>Agentic systems are distributed systems wearing a chat costume. The sooner you accept that, the fewer 3 a.m. pages you earn.</p> <p>I have been building Go backends since 2011 — Kafka pipelines, membership APIs, payment flows, the unglamorous center of enterprise operations. When multi-agent workflows arrived, I did not reach for a new religion. I reached for <strong>the same primitives that kept the event backbone alive</strong>.</p> <h2 id="why-go-for-agent-orchestration">Why Go for agent orchestration</h2> <p>Multi-agent workflows are coordination problems: fan-out, join, timeout budgets, partial failure, human escalation. Go&rsquo;s concurrency model — goroutines, channels, context cancellation — maps to those problems without pretending parallelism is free.</p>