Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers

from Practical AI Hosted by Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson

In this episode, Daniel sits down with Pavel Veller, EPAM’s Chief Technologist, to explore the practical challenges of orchestrating many AI agents and managing connections to disparate systems/tools. Pavel shares insights from his hands-on work with agentic architectures and internal tools like "DIAL". Pavel also helps us understand things like MCP servers and why connecting assistants via APIs is easy—but making them useful is hard. Featuring: Pavel Veller – LinkedIn, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Links: EPAM DIAL SWE-bench results

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Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers

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0:00 Welcome to Practical AI
0:44 Introducing our guest
7:30 MCP
12:35 Assistants
18:12 Real world code bases
28:12 Getting this up and running
32:18 Challenges
39:01 Worries
41:13 Outro

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