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// Scalable Patterns for Agentic AI Workflows // Besides context engineering, we should be putting a lot more system engineering efforts around agents. This paper shows an example of why it matters. (bookmark it) Let's start with an important question: Where does your agentic RAG pipeline actually lose time? It's almost never the LLM call. It's usually the data plane underneath. Serialization between preprocessing, embedding, and vector retrieval, plus coordination overhead between distributed services. New work introduces AAFLOW, a unified distributed runtime that models agentic workflows as an operator abstraction over Apache Arrow and Cylon. A zero-copy data plane connects preprocessing, embedding, and retrieval directly. Resource-deterministic scheduling and async batching cut coordination cost. The result: up to 4.64× pipeline speedup and 2.8× gains in embedding and upsert phases, with comparable LLM throughput. None of that comes from LLM inference acceleration. It all comes from cleaner data flow. Paper: https://t.co/9fqkRRsV39 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://t.co/1e8RZKs4uX