Agents can't exist in a vacuum. They need a supporting cast and there's no better foundation than Event Sourcing.

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Event sourcing provides the ideal foundation for building agentic AI systems by offering perfect recall, auditability, and support for distributed agent communication. The pattern naturally handles the demanding requirements of AI agents including memory storage, context retrieval, asynchronous streaming, and nondeterministic behavior evaluation. Key concepts covered include prompt engineering as critical for success, retrieval augmented generation for knowledge enhancement, and how event sourcing enables fearless experimentation and multi-agent coordination through immutable event logs.

Event Sourcing: The Backbone of Agentic AI