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Agentic AI

Agentic AI

What is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI describes AI systems that do not merely respond to individual inputs, but independently plan and execute multi-step tasks while flexibly adapting to changing conditions. Unlike traditional AI assistants, which receive a request and deliver a response, agentic systems act in a goal-oriented manner: they break complex tasks down into sub-steps, select appropriate tools, execute them, and verify the results – all without human intervention at every individual step.

The term derives from the English word “agent” (one who acts, a representative). An AI agent is a system that perceives, decides, and acts within its environment – continuously and aligned toward an overarching goal.

What is Apache Kafka?

What is Apache Kafka?

What is Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform originally developed at LinkedIn and donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open-source project in 2011. Kafka was specifically designed to reliably receive, store, and forward extremely large volumes of events in real time – with minimal latency even under high load peaks.

Simply put, Kafka works like a highly scalable, durable message log: producers write data into so-called topics, consumers read that data at their own pace. The data is retained in the system for a configurable period of time – unlike traditional message queues, which discard messages after they have been read.