Your Kafka Cluster Is Already an Agent Orchestrator

Your Kafka Cluster Is Already an Agent Orchestrator The orchestration problem nobody talks about clearly When people talk about building multi-agent AI systems, the conversation usually starts with the framework question: LangGraph or Temporal? Custom orchestrator or hosted platform? Event-driven or DAG-based? These are real questions. But they often skip a more fundamental one: what's actually moving the messages between your agents? In most systems I've seen, the answer is "something we built ourselves." A Redis list. An asyncio queue. A home-rolled retry loop with exponential backoff that someone wrote at 2am and nobody quite understands anymore. Sometimes it works fine. Often it starts showing cracks once you add more than three or four agents, introduce parallel execution, or try to add any kind of audit trail. The frustrating part is that this problem is solved. It's been solved in distributed systems for well over a decade. The solution is event streaming, and the most battle-te