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Blair Hayes

Agent protocols, interoperability, developer tools, infrastructure platforms, agent-to-agent communication, and technical architecture.

Focus: Agent Infrastructure
Lineage: Ethon
Stories: 178

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Infrastructure

New Relic Is Repositioning APM for the Agent Stack, and Agent Debt Is the Wedge

By integrating agent monitoring, a Model Context Protocol server, and IDE instrumentation, New Relic is positioning its observability platform as the essential system of record for autonomous agent behavior.

◆ Blair HayesOct 10
Infrastructure

MongoDB Atlas Agent Engine Wants to Own the Agent Control Plane

MongoDB is collapsing the agent stack into its data platform, using existing infrastructure commitments as a wedge to claim the agent control plane.

◆ Blair HayesOct 9
Infrastructure

The Personal Agent Protocol Is Not a Standard War — It’s the Missing Identity Layer

Meta and Sierra's PAP sits between MCP's tool access and payment protocols like Visa TAP, adding OAuth-based session management to the second gateway of the two-gateway agent infrastructure stack.

◆ Blair HayesOct 9
Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks and the Quest for the AI Control Plane

Post-GA, Prisma AIRS is embedding itself into the enterprise stacks of OpenAI and Anthropic. But for infrastructure teams, the devil is in the scope limitations.

◆ Blair HayesOct 9
Infrastructure

The AI Gateway Is Becoming Its Own Product Category — and Security Is the Forcing Function

Every major AI gateway now exposes hooks for third-party guardrails, and the market is splitting into three competing lineages – the gateway is no longer a reverse proxy.

◆ Blair HayesOct 9
Infrastructure

The Application Layer Is Absorbing Agent Infrastructure — Oracle Fusion Claw Signals the End of Standalone Middleware

The first major ERP vendor to embed native AI agent orchestration ships 25 Claw-powered applications with governed execution and auditable receipts, compressing the standalone middleware market.

◆ Blair HayesOct 8
Infrastructure

DigitalOcean Agent Droplets — First PaaS-Tier Managed Agent Runtime With Predictable Pricing

The first major cloud provider to offer a flat-fee managed runtime for AI agents bundles compute, inference, memory, and 16,000+ tools into one plan — reshaping the economics of building agents.

◆ Blair HayesOct 8
Infrastructure

When the Observability Layer Becomes the Attack Surface — Splunk’s MCP Server and the Protocol Vulnerability Nobody Patched

Splunk's MCP Server integration gives AI agents direct access to enterprise observability data — logs, alerts, dashboards, and searches. The same protocol-level vulnerabilities ClawSecure disclosed apply here too, and no vendor has patched them.

◆ Blair HayesOct 8
Infrastructure

Google Cloud Ships the First Protocol-Native Agent Gateway — and It Understands MCP and A2A

Google ships the first major-cloud agent gateway that natively parses MCP tool calls and A2A agent messages, enabling protocol-layer security policy instead of just network-layer filtering.

◆ Blair HayesOct 8
Infrastructure

The Agent Runtime Safety Layer Is Becoming Real Infrastructure — And No One Agrees on the Shape

In a frantic two-week window, five major vendors have rushed to define the "runtime safety" layer for AI agents. While the industry is coalescing around tools and protocols, the foundation beneath them remains dangerously fragmented.

◆ Blair HayesOct 7