How Netflix and Uber Build Event Driven Systems at Scale
A practical look at how Netflix and Uber run event-driven systems at huge scale: isolating failures, choosing delivery guarantees, and plann...
Sep 21, 2026
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The Harness is the Moat: Building a Deterministic Agent Runtime with Context Pruning
Learn how a deterministic harness prunes context, uses a ledger and transactional tool calls to keep LLM agents reliable over many turns.
Sep 16, 2026
The Hidden Cost of “Just Add a Setting”
“Can we just add a setting for this?” It sounds harmless. Suppose an office should be able to choose its default appointment duration. The f...
Stop Creating an Endpoint for Every Button
There is a pattern that feels completely natural when building an API. The frontend gets an Approve button, so the backend gets an endpoint:...
Is It Safe to Give Claude Access to Your Gmail?
Claude's Gmail connector has no send tool, but the OAuth scope you grant it can send. Audit the grant, because that is where your blast radi...
Sep 6, 2026
DeepSeek Harness: An Architecture Review and Getting-Started Guide
DeepSeek Harness takes a different approach to AI coding agents: instead of locking the model, tools, state, and agent loop into one product...
I Built an Angular Authentication Layer for the Signals Era
How I designed `ngx-auth-client` around reactive state, provider-agnostic authentication, functional guards, and safer token handling.
AnyDoc Architecture Review: Inside Firecrawl's Rust Document-to-Markdown Stack
A technical look at Firecrawl's AnyDoc and pdf-inspector, two open-source Rust libraries designed to turn heterogeneous documents into struc...
Building a Reusable Keycloak Theme Architecture
Customizing a Keycloak login theme is styling. Doing it for a second brand without copying the first one is architecture. Here is how a base...