AgentCon Bangkok 2026 - How to Stay Sane in the Age of Agents

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1. How to Stay Sane in the Age of Agents AgentCon Bangkok 2026-02-21
2. Karn Wong Loves optimization Has too much fun cranking out benchmarks HashiCorp Ambassador & AWS Community Builder Website: karnwong.me Independent Consultant
3. What this talk is not about How to develop an agentic app Who you should ask instead?
4. GenAI Apps Evolution RAG Advanced RAG Agentic RAG Agentic App
5. Agentic AI Frameworks Partial list Name Python SDK TypeScript SDK Java SDK Go SDK Rust SDK .NET SDK Agent Development Kit (ADK) 🐍 🟦 ☕ 🐹 - - crewAI 🐍 - - - - - LangGraph 🐍 🟦 - - - - Microsoft Agent Framework 🐍 - - - - 🟣 ADK-Rust* - - - - 🦀 - Rig - - - - 🦀 - *non-official ADK implementation
6. Agents vs Sub-Agents Sub-Agents Travel Planner Agent Flight Search Sub-Agent Hotel Booking Sub-Agent Itinerary Generation Sub- Agent https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/where-to-use-sub-agents-versus-agents-as-tools/
7. Folder Structure . ├── agents │ ├── data-agent │ └── travel-planner-agent │ ├── agents │ │ ├── flight-search-agent │ │ │ └── tools │ │ ├── hotel-booking-agent │ │ │ └── tools │ │ ├── itinerary-generation-agent │ │ │ └── tools │ │ └── travel-planner-agent │ │ └── tools │ └── tools └── tools How not to shoot yourself in the foot.
8. Multi-Team Setup This will be very fun, I promise you.
9. Framework Fragmentation Python: Agent Development Kit, $MOST_FRAMEWORKS_OUT_THERE TypeScript: Agent Development Kit, LangGraph Java: Agent Development Kit Go: Agent Development Kit Rust: Rig .NET: Microsoft Agent Framework Do you want to maintain multiple frameworks?
10. Framework Fragmentation If you can’t avoid it? Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol* has you covered. * Agent Development Kit and Agent2Agent complement each other. They are not the same package. https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/
11. A2A Protocol Support Name Python TypeScript Java Go Rust .NET A2A Agent Development Kit (ADK) 🐍 🟦 ☕ 🐹 - - ✅ crewAI 🐍 - - - - - ✅ LangGraph 🐍 🟦 - - - - ✅ (via Agent Server) Microsoft Agent Framework 🐍 - - - - 🟣 ✅ (.NET only) ADK-Rust - - - - 🦀 - ✅ Rig - - - - 🦀 - ❌
12. Agents Orchestration Patterns Sequential, loop, parallel. etc. Treat agent tasks as pipelines Durable execution* for retry/failure handling Consult your framework’s documentation. https://github.com/resonatehq-examples/example-openai-deep-research-agent-ts/ *https://temporal.io/blog/what-is-durable-execution
13. Authentication Supported Auth Methods in A2A API Key HTTP Auth OAuth 2.0 OpenID Mutual TLS Consult your framework’s documentation for supported auth protocols. https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/definitions
14. LLM Observability Latency, traffic, errors, saturation monitoring* Tracing Token usage & costs Auto instrumentation vs manual instrumentation Not to be confused with evaluation. *https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/
15. LLM Observability Tools Name Python Node Java Go Rust ADK Auto Instrumentation Datadog* 🐍 🟦 ☕ - - ✅ (Python only) Arize Phoenix** 🐍 🟦 ☕ - - ✅ (Python only) eBPF + OTel*** 🐍 🟦 ☕ 🐹 🦀 ✅ Consult your tool’s documentation for supported integrations. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/llm_observability/instrumentation/auto_instrumentation/ **https://arize.com/docs/phoenix/integrations/ ***https://github.com/kahnwong/a2a-go-demo/
16. eBPF + OTel Example Trace: Agent
17. eBPF + OTel Example Trace: LLM
18. Takeaways Choose a stack based on your needs Good project structure is easier to maintain Interoperability is key Agent Development Kit covers many languages Auto instrumentation is supported in most cases. Use appropriate orchestration pattern Don’t forget about security Monitoring and observability are your friends
19. Thank you 🙏 Download slides at karnwong.me