Agents in the Wild: Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Workloads

AI agents are becoming the new workloads—but unlike microservices, they make their own decisions, interact with external systems, and can go off-script in ways you'd never expect. Prompt injection, unauthorized access, and unpredictable outputs are no longer hypothetical risks. They're the new operational reality for platform teams running agentic systems in production. The good news? You don't need to rewrite every agent. This talk shows how platform teams can enforce security and observability at the networking layer, treating the gateway as the control point for agentic traffic. We'll walk through patterns for intercepting malicious inputs, validating responses, establishing cryptographic trust for external interactions, and capturing telemetry on agent behavior, while minimizing the instrumentation burden on individual workloads.