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Building Conversational Commerce with Multi-Agent Swarms on GCP: A Working Prototype- Google Developers Blog
Google Developers · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Google released HappyDelivery, a working prototype for conversational commerce using multi-agent swarms on GCP with three decoupled layers for messaging, state, and AI reasoning.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building chat-based shopping systems should care, especially those handling multiple messaging platforms like WhatsApp, RCS, Apple Messages, and SMS simultaneously.
- Watch out
- The prototype demonstrates architecture but production scale depends on infrastructure choices; Redis alone handles 3,000 to 15,000 concurrent turns per second before needing clustering.
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