Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure With Ray
InfoQ, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Apple engineers explain how to move AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production on Kubernetes using Ray.
In this QCon AI presentation, two Apple engineers walk through the developer lifecycle for taking an agent from a local prototype to production at scale with Ray on Kubernetes.
They review agent building blocks (LLM, tools, memory and prompts) and share operational lessons on RayCluster topology, stateful memory handling, autoscaling under bursty traffic and control plane design.
The talk also covers guardrails at several stages of execution, multi-region setups, trace-based observability of reasoning loops, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation pipelines.