A2A, MCP, Kafka and Flink: The New Stack for AI Agents

Before the web had Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and before email had Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), we were stuck with custom integrations, fragmented systems and brittle workflows. It wasn’t until open protocols and shared infrastructure emerged that the internet truly scaled, unlocking the modern web, global communication and entire economies.

Today, AI agents are in this same pre-standardization phase. They’re powerful, capable and multiplying fast, but they don’t work together. One agent analyzes data. Another one…