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...
Sep 9, 2026
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Agentic Commerce Architecture: Building Ecommerce for Humans and AI Agents
Adobe recently acquired AI startup Rilo to add workflow orchestration capabilities, aiming to automate marketing and go-to-market workflows ...
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.
Event-Driven Microservices with Apache Kafka, Redis Caching and Transactional Outbox Pattern
Master high-throughput event-driven microservices architecture using Java 21, Spring Boot 3.4+, Apache Kafka, Redis distributed locking and ...
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...
The Command Palette Is an Architecture, Not a Widget
The theming article ended on a move from how an app looks to how power users drive it. The command palette — the Cmd+K menu that fuzzy-searc...
Code-Splitting Is a Boundary Decision, Not a Bundle Trick
The command palette article closed by promising the last piece of this look-and-feel stretch, and it's the one that looks the most like a so...
You Probably Don't Need Multi-Agents
I work across six or seven repositories on one project — a big hybrid thing, part microfrontend, part backend, several apps that all talk to...
Analytics Is Architecture: Stop Sprinkling track() Everywhere
This cluster has been about how the parts of an app communicate — event buses for ambient signals, feature flags for toggling behavior. Both...
