High Availability Architecture

Apr 30, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Redefining the Backend: How Workers, Triggers, and Functions Turn Agents into First-Class Workers

The article argues that the traditional separation between AI agent harnesses and back‑ends creates debugging complexity, and proposes redefining the backend with three primitives—worker, trigger, and function—so that agents become equivalent to services or queues, enabling real‑time discovery, scalable extensibility, and unified observability across heterogeneous components.