Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn @infoq
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn  @infoq
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QCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agentic systems, the role of MCP, the use of foreground and background agents, improving developer experience, and reducing toil.

Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/4prPukO

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