DevOpsDays Halifax 2026

Eric D Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate at AWS specializing in serverless and event-driven architectures. With 35+ years in technology and a passion for making the complex understandable, Eric has presented and keynoted at hundreds of tech conferences worldwide. He brings humor, energy, and hard-won production experience to every talk, and has been an early adopter of AWS durable functions for agent orchestration since their launch.


Session

09-29
16:30
30min
Let Agents Run Wild — Inside Deterministic Guardrails
Eric D Johnson

AI agents are non-deterministic. They hallucinate, vary every run, and surprise you. The industry keeps trying to constrain them. I take the opposite approach: let agents run fully autonomous inside deterministic durable function workflows that guarantee the pipeline always completes. You already know how to operate deterministic workflows. Now use that skill to tame AI.

Serverless Computing
Volta HQ