Deploying a Stateful AI Agent on a Stateless Web Architecture: Challenges, Solutions, and Code Walkthrough
This article analyzes the fundamental conflict between stateful AI agents and the inherently stateless, distributed nature of modern web services, explores time, state, and execution model mismatches, and presents a practical Agent‑as‑API solution using FastAPI, Redis, SSE, and Kubernetes to achieve scalable, fault‑tolerant deployments.
