Agent infrastructure has focused on sandboxing: running tools safely. But sandboxing protects tool execution, not agent operation.
The agent loop—deciding, calling tools, waiting on humans, recovering from crashes, and coordinating work—often still lives in memory. When it dies, state, context, and explainability disappear.
This talk examines the runtime beneath the agent: the durable substrate that enables replay, traceability, recovery, and operational clarity.
We will show how production agents can record LLM calls, tool calls, state transitions, and human inputs as first-class execution history; reconstruct decisions long after they occurred; run deterministic workflow graphs; and survive retries, crashes, and long waits.
Examples use Conductor and Agentspan, with patterns applicable across modern agent frameworks without rewriting core logic.
Speaker
Viren Baraiya
co-founder and CTO @Orkes
Viren Baraiya is the co-founder and CTO at Orkes, a leading workflow orchestration platform and maintainer of Conductor, the open-source project used by Netflix to achieve reliability at massive scale. With over 20 years of experience, Viren has led engineering teams at Google, Netflix and Goldman Sachs focusing on building developer platforms. He was also lead software engineer at McGraw-Hill Companies where he led the design and implementation teams for the US and India, building some of the industry’s first online edTech products.
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