Posts by Alan Blount

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  • AUG. 5, 2026 / AI

    Scaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless updates

    The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification replaces legacy stateful constraints with a fully stateless core, enabling cloud-native horizontal scaling, serverless deployments, and standard round-robin load balancing. This architectural shift introduces standardized HTTP headers for efficient routing without deep packet inspection, caching controls, and Multi Round-Trip Requests (MRTR) to handle interactive and long-running tasks without blocking connections. Developers can immediately begin migrating their agentic applications to this highly scalable infrastructure using the newly available beta SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, and C#.

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  • JULY 1, 2026 / AI

    Why we built ADK 2.0

    Answering the questions of "why we built ADK 2.0". This explains the rationale, some of the features, and why a developer should consider upgrading. This will be published the day after ADK go 2.0 launches.

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  • JUNE 18, 2026 / AI

    How A2A is Building a World of Collaborative Agents

    Celebrating the first anniversary of the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, this blog post highlights how the framework enables autonomous AI agents to securely collaborate and hand off tasks without the rigidity of traditional APIs. By delegating complex workflows to specialized peer agents, A2A prevents context pollution, ensures data privacy, and simplifies application design through modularity. To demonstrate this ecosystem in action, the post spotlights FoldRun—an agentic interface for life sciences that orchestrates complex protein structure predictions—alongside diverse A2A use cases spanning commerce, data streaming, DevOps, and telecommunications.

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  • DEC. 11, 2025 / AI

    Building agents with the ADK and the new Interactions API

    The new Gemini Interactions API enables stateful, multi-turn AI agent workflows, providing a single interface for raw models and the Gemini Deep Research Agent. It can be integrated with existing ADK systems as a superior inference engine with simplified state management, or used as a transparent remote A2A agent via InteractionsApiTransport, allowing seamless expansion of multi-agent systems with minimal refactoring.

    The Agentic experience: Is MCP the right tool for your AI future?
  • SEPT. 26, 2025 / AI

    Delight users by combining ADK Agents with Fancy Frontends using AG-UI

    The ADK and AG-UI integration enables developers to build interactive AI applications by combining a powerful backend (ADK) with a flexible frontend protocol (AG-UI). This unlocks features like Generative UI, Shared State, Human-in-the-Loop, and Frontend Tools, allowing for seamless collaboration between AI and human users.

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