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Sebastian Maniak on running AI agents in production — agentgateway, kagent, MCP, A2A, and the Kubernetes plumbing that keeps them fast, observable, and safe.

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AI 10 Jun 2026

agentgateway Standalone → Langfuse: Direct OTLP Tracing (No Collector)

I’ve already covered the production OTel Collector pattern for shipping agentgateway traces to Langfuse. This is the opposite end of the spectrum: the …

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10 Jun 2026

Langfuse Integration with agentgateway (OTel Collector Pattern) for cost controls, observability

agentgateway emits rich OpenTelemetry traces for every LLM request, tool call, and policy decision. This guide shows the production-grade way to forward those …

10 Jun 2026

Self-Hosted Langfuse with Docker + kagent Integration

Running Langfuse as a self-hosted Docker stack gives you full control over your LLM observability data. This guide shows how to deploy it and integrate it with …

AI 09 Jun 2026

Running kagent on a kind Cluster with a Local vLLM + Qwen3 Backend

Running kagent on a kind Cluster with a Local vLLM + Qwen3 Backend By Sebastian Maniak Most kagent walkthroughs assume you’re pointing at OpenAI or …

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20 May 2026

Proxying All Your LLM Traffic Through agentgateway with Grok Build

Introduction If you’re like me, your AI tooling has probably grown into a sprawling mess of API keys: Claude Code reads .claude/.env, Cursor uses OpenAI …

08 May 2026

How To: Connect Claude Code & Codex Through agentgateway (Subscription + API Key)

Introduction You’ve got Claude Code running on your laptop. You’ve got Codex open in a tab. Both are just AI coding tools, right? Wrong. Behind the …

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