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We Forgot the Boring Parts. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Multi-Agent Systems Are Just Services. We Forgot the Boring Parts. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 8 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Multi-agent AI systems are architecturally identical to microservices — a request comes in, work happens, an answer goes out — yet most teams treat them as a novel category requiring novel tooling. The real gap between impressive demos and production-ready agents is the same unglamorous backend engineering that's been solved for a decade: authentication, rate limiting, circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, distributed tracing, and metrics. Using GoFr as a concrete example, the author builds a four-service multi-agent system (orchestrator + three specialists) where inter-agent calls are plain HTTP with circuit breakers and rate limiters in configuration, tools are existing API endpoints exposed via MCP, and full distributed tracing across all hops comes for free from the framework's instrumentation. The core argument: teams that ship reliable agents in 2026 will be the ones who were thorough about the parts that don't demo well, not the ones with the cleverest orchestration abstraction. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kartiknvj** · 0 upvotes > Treating each agent as a service makes the missing pieces obvious: timeouts, retries with backoff, idempotency, and a request ID that survives the whole chain. The wrinkle is that a retried LLM call is not idempotent by default, so the same input can produce a different action the second time around. 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