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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 Gateway 06 Jul 2026

GPT-5.5 vs Claude vs Grok: Which Model Saves Money? (I Made Them Fly a Drone)

Same job, three brains. I gave an AI agent a real Ryze RoboMaster TT drone and one fixed mission — take off, flip, photograph the room, spin 360°, land and …

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03 Jul 2026

First Steps: agentgateway, F5 AI Guardrails, and the Enterprise UI

The previous post covered the new hard spend limits in Enterprise agentgateway v2026.6.3: model cost catalogs, dollar or token budgets, and a real 429 when a …

02 Jul 2026

Hard Spend Limits for LLM Traffic: AI Budgets in Enterprise AgentGateway v2026.6.3

Enterprise AgentGateway v2026.6.3 shipped on July 1st with a changelog line that FinOps-minded platform teams have been waiting for: Enterprise Budgets and …

02 Jul 2026

Three Ways to Combine agentgateway with F5 AI Guardrails (and Where F5 Distributed Cloud Fits)

F5’s acquisition of CalypsoAI gave enterprises something a lot of security teams have been asking for: a dedicated AI runtime security layer — F5 AI …

AI 25 Jun 2026

Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind

Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind By Sebastian Maniak Agent sessions are bursty. A user asks a question, the agent …

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24 Jun 2026

agentgateway Standalone: A Cost & Tokenomics Dashboard in One Command

Introduction You’re routing LLM traffic through a gateway. But do you actually know what it costs? Not the rough monthly invoice from your provider — the …

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