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Agentic Architectures 2026: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen — Comparative Guide

A practical comparative course for developers building production multi-agent systems. You will implement the same document processing pipeline in LangGraph (state machine), CrewAI (role-based teams), and AutoGen (conversational agents), then apply 3 structured decision trees to determine which framework fits your next project. Covers memory strategies, tool calling reliability, token budgets, and resilience patterns for each framework.

Duration
2 days
Level
Advanced
Price
9.99 EUR/month (all courses included)
Max group
12 participants

What you will learn

+Understand the fundamental paradigm differences between LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen
+Build the same multi-step pipeline in all three frameworks
+Apply structured decision trees to choose the right framework for any use case
+Implement production-grade memory and persistence in each framework
+Measure and compare token costs across frameworks for the same task
+Identify failure modes and resilience patterns for production deployments

Course program

Module 1: The Agentic Framework Landscape in 2026

2h
  • Three paradigms: state machine vs. team vs. conversation
  • Ecosystem snapshot: stable APIs vs. moving targets
  • Framework selection matrix and common mismatch patterns
  • Real-world cost of wrong framework choice

Module 2: LangGraph — State Machine Precision

3h30
  • TypedDict state schemas and Annotated reducers
  • Graph construction: nodes, edges, conditional routing
  • SQLite and Redis checkpointing for fault tolerance
  • Human-in-the-loop: pause, review, and resume patterns

Module 3: CrewAI — Role-Based Team Coordination

3h
  • Agent roles, goals, and backstories as system prompts
  • Sequential vs. hierarchical process models
  • CrewAI Flow API: structured state on top of crew semantics
  • Long-term memory with ChromaDB embeddings

Module 4: AutoGen — Conversational Multi-Agent Patterns

3h
  • AutoGen 0.4 AgentChat API — migration from 0.2
  • RoundRobinGroupChat vs. SelectorGroupChat
  • Termination conditions: TextMentionTermination + MaxMessageTermination
  • Where AutoGen genuinely wins: iterative refinement tasks

Module 5: Decision Framework — Three Trees

2h
  • Decision Tree 1: Control vs. Expressiveness
  • Decision Tree 2: Token Budget Constraint
  • Decision Tree 3: Team Size and Failure Modes
  • Real-world vignettes: fintech, healthcare, legal, dev tools

Module 6: Memory, Persistence & Tool Calling

2h30
  • Short-term, long-term, and episodic memory across frameworks
  • Redis checkpointing and thread isolation for parallel processing
  • Tool calling reliability patterns and production error handling
  • Token cost benchmarks and framework selection scoring

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