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Observability Without Cost Telemetry Is Broken Engineering

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 20:23:51

I've run production systems where we could tell you the p99 latency of any endpoint down to the microsecond, but couldn't explain why our AWS bill jumped $40,000 in a single weekend. That disconnect — between operational visibility and financial reality — is where most observability strategies quietly fail. The orthodox telemetry trinity (metrics, logs, traces) gives you performance. Error rates. Request volumes. Latency distributions that let you argue about whether 250 ms is acceptable for a search API. What it won't tell you is that the microservice you just optimized for speed now costs $0.03 per invocation instead of $0.002, and at scale, that rounding error becomes someone's quarterly budget.

From Command Lines to Intent Interfaces: Reframing Git Workflows Using Model Context Protocol

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 19:23:51

My recent journey into agentic developer systems has been driven by a desire to understand how AI moves from passive assistance to active participation in software workflows. In an earlier article, AI Co-creation in Developer Debugging Workflows, I explored how developers and AI systems collaboratively reason about code. As I went deeper into this space, I came across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and became keen to understand what this component is and why it is important. I noticed that MCP was frequently referenced in discussions about agentic systems, yet rarely explained in a concrete, developer-centric way. This article is a direct outcome of that learning process, using a practical Git workflow example to clarify the role and value of MCP in intent-driven developer tooling. What Is an MCP Server? At a conceptual level, an MCP server acts as a control plane between an AI assistant and external systems. Rather than allowing an LLM to issue arbitrary API calls, the MCP server implements the Model Context Protocol and exposes a constrained, well-defined set of capabilities that the model can invoke.

The Missing Primitive in Data Platforms: Agent Contracts for Tool Calls

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 18:23:51

Analytics agents are moving from answering questions to doing things — running SQL, resolving metrics, fetching lineage, creating exports, and triggering workflows. This shift breaks a common assumption in GenAI projects: that production will be fine if the agent’s prompt is good. In reality, once an agent can call tools, you are operating a distributed system whose behavior can drift with every model upgrade, prompt change, routing adjustment, or schema change. Most teams respond by adding a few guardrails, tuning prompts, or rate-limiting tool access. That helps, but it doesn’t address the failure mode that matters most in data platforms: the same question leading to different tool behavior over time. A small change can turn a safe metric lookup into raw SQL, increasing retries and introducing silent correctness drift without any explicit error. Traditional data platforms solved this problem with data contracts, which consist of SLOs, explicit interfaces, controlled rollouts, and ownership.

Amazon Q Developer for AI Infrastructure: Architecting Automated ML Pipelines

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 17:23:51

The landscape of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is shifting from manual configuration to AI-driven orchestration. As organizations scale their AI initiatives, the bottleneck is rarely the model architecture itself, but rather the underlying infrastructure required to train, deploy, and monitor these models at scale. Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant, has emerged as a critical tool for architects and engineers looking to automate the lifecycle of AI infrastructure. Traditionally, setting up a robust ML pipeline involved complex Infrastructure as Code (IaC), intricate IAM permissioning, and manual tuning of compute resources like NVIDIA H100s or AWS Trainium. Amazon Q Developer streamlines this by translating high-level architectural requirements into production-ready scripts, optimizing resource allocation, and troubleshooting connectivity issues within the AWS ecosystem. This article explores the technical architecture of using Amazon Q for ML infrastructure and provides practical implementation strategies.

Architecting Zero-Trust Database Access in Kubernetes With Vault Dynamic Secrets

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 16:23:51

The Death of the Static Credential: An Operational Imperative In modern software architecture, speed is the primary driver of innovation. We deploy faster and scale wider, yet this velocity introduces a parallel vector of risk: complexity. Amidst this, one vulnerability remains persistently simple: the static database credential. For decades, the "database password" was a fixed artifact. In the monolithic era, this was manageable. In the era of Kubernetes and ephemeral infrastructure, it is a liability. Zero trust is now an architectural mandate: trust is never granted implicitly based on network location. In the database layer, this necessitates the elimination of "standing privileges."

Hurley: A High-Performance HTTP Client and Load Testing Tool Engineered in Rust

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 15:23:51

Introduction and Motivation This article examines the technical architecture, capabilities, and use cases of hurley, a project developed in Rust that functions as both a general-purpose HTTP client and a performance testing tool. It explores the efficiency advantages gained by managing API testing and performance analysis through a unified tool within software development processes. With the proliferation of microservices architectures and distributed systems, communication via the HTTP protocol has become the lifeblood of the software ecosystem. In this context, developers face two fundamental needs: (1) A flexible HTTP client to verify the functional correctness of API endpoints, and (2) Performance testing tools to analyze system behavior under load.

Why End-to-End Testing Fails in Microservice Architectures

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 14:23:51

End-to-end testing is often described as the ultimate safety net for modern software systems. In theory, it validates real user workflows across all components and ensures that the system behaves correctly as a whole. In practice, however, end-to-end testing frequently fails to deliver reliable value in microservice architectures. Teams invest heavily in E2E suites, only to face slow pipelines, flaky tests, and low confidence in test results.

A Unified Defense Against MITRE’s Top Injection Attacks

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 13:23:51

This is how I created a Go library to address 41 actively exploited vulnerabilities. The Problem That Keeps Security Teams Up at Night On December 11, 2025, MITRE released its annual 2025 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list, analyzing 39,080 CVE records from the past year. The results should concern every developer.

Queueing Theory for LLM Inference

Aggregated on: 2026-02-20 12:23:51

If you are deploying LLM inference in production, you are no longer just doing machine learning. You are doing applied mathematics plus systems engineering. Most teams tune prompts, choose a model, then wonder why latency explodes at peak traffic. The root cause is usually not the model. It is load, variability, and the queue that forms when the arrival rate approaches the service capacity.

From Prompts to Platforms: Scaling Agentic AI (Part 2)

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 20:08:51

The tenets I introduced in Part 1 covered the functional mechanics — the core features that power an AI platform. But in production, functionality is only half the battle. These next six Operational Tenets are about how the platform survives the chaos of the real world and scales without breaking under its own complexity. Here are the pillars critical to operating an AI platform at scale:

AWS SageMaker HyperPod: Distributed Training for Foundation Models at Scale

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 19:08:51

The landscape of Artificial Intelligence has undergone a seismic shift with the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). These models, characterized by billions (and now trillions) of parameters, require unprecedented levels of computational power. Training a model like Llama 3 or Claude is no longer a task for a single machine; it requires a coordinated symphony of hundreds or thousands of GPUs working in unison for weeks or months. However, managing these massive clusters is fraught with technical hurdles: hardware failures, network bottlenecks, and complex orchestration requirements. AWS SageMaker HyperPod was engineered specifically to solve these challenges, providing a purpose-built environment for large-scale distributed training. In this deep dive, we will explore the architecture, features, and practical implementation of HyperPod.

Automating Unix Security Across Hybrid Clouds

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 18:08:51

In modern DevOps, we automate deployments, testing, and infrastructure provisioning. Yet, in many organizations, server patching remains a manual, high-friction event. Admins log in late at night, run scripts, and hope services restart correctly. This manual approach is a security liability. The longer the gap between a vulnerability disclosure and a patch application, the wider the attack window.

Tools for Building Deterministic LLM Systems

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 17:08:50

It’s hard to imagine a world without LLMs nowadays. I rarely reach for Google when ChatGPT can provide me a much more curated answer with almost all the context it could need. However, these daily use cases often lean in creative directions. In the context of B2B systems, that same creativity that provides so much usefulness in day-to-day is not acceptable.

Mastering Serverless Data Pipelines: AWS Step Functions Best Practices for 2026

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 16:08:50

AWS Step Functions has evolved from a simple state machine orchestrator into the backbone of modern serverless data engineering. As organizations move away from brittle, monolithic scripts toward event-driven architectures, Step Functions provides the reliability, observability, and scalability required for complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data workflows. However, building a “working” pipeline is different from building a “production-grade” pipeline. In this guide, we will explore industry-standard best practices for building robust serverless data pipelines, focusing on performance, cost efficiency, and maintainability.

Jetpack Navigation 3: A New Era for Navigation in Compose-Driven Android Apps

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 15:08:50

In late 2025, Google released Jetpack Navigation 3, a major redesign of the Android Navigation library built specifically for Jetpack Compose and modern UI architectures. This is not a typical incremental update. Navigation 3 fundamentally changes how navigation state is modeled, owned, and rendered in an application. If you have been using the Navigation Component with Compose through navigation-compose, the new version may feel unfamiliar at first. However, it aligns much more naturally with Compose’s reactive programming model and solves many long-standing limitations around state ownership, adaptive layouts, and complex navigation flows.

The Future of Agentic AI

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 14:08:50

The era of passive AI chatbots is ending. We are now entering the age of agentic AI: systems that actively reason, plan, and execute tasks. For organizations, this represents a potential leap in productivity, but it also introduces new engineering challenges. Moving from a simple prompt to a reliable agent ecosystem requires a new, robust architecture.

The Developer’s Guide to Local LLMs: Building, Running, and Scaling With Ollama

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 13:08:50

Firstly, LLMs are already widely used for working with unstructured natural data in general. Additionally, they excel at extracting information and working with semi-structured data, such as JSON files and other lengthy configuration files. It allows us to use them that way to interact with relational data, for example. Cloud-based LLMs are effective and powerful, but they have some limits. That's where locally based LLMs come into play. Local LLMs: Pros and Cons I first realized the need to use local LLMs while developing software for a critical industry (healthcare), where Personal Health Information is strictly regulated and, accordingly, the use of cloud-based LLMs is very limited. So, privacy is the first benefit of using the local LLMs.

Embedding Store as a Platform on AWS: OpenSearch + Bedrock + S3 Needs SLAs, Governance, and Quotas

Aggregated on: 2026-02-19 12:08:50

When teams say they are building RAG, they often mean they are adding a vector database. On AWS, this typically looks like using S3 for documents, Amazon Bedrock to generate embeddings, and Amazon OpenSearch for vector search. It functions when you set it up, embed a few thousand chunks, and perform a similarity search, and it works. Everyone is happy!

Production-Ready Observability for Analytics Agents: An Open Telemetry Blueprint Across Retrieval, SQL, Redaction, and Tool Calls

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 20:08:50

An analytics agent works great in demos: ask a question, and it fetches context, runs SQL queries, and summarizes the results. Then the real incident happens: a VP challenges a number, the security team asks whether restricted fields were exposed, or an auditor requests to see how the answer was produced and which controls were applied. Most teams can’t answer confidently because their observability was built for latency and debugging — not governance. They either:

Mastering the Gemini 3 API: Architecting Next-Gen Multimodal AI Applications

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 19:08:50

The landscape of large language models (LLMs) has shifted from text-centric interfaces to truly multimodal reasoning engines. With the release of the Gemini 3 API, Google has introduced a paradigm shift in how developers interact with artificial intelligence. Gemini 3 isn’t just an incremental update; it represents a fundamental advancement in native multimodality, expanded context windows, and efficient agentic workflows. In this technical deep dive, we will explore the architecture of Gemini 3, compare its capabilities with previous generations, and walk through the implementation of a production-ready AI feature: a Multimodal Intelligent Research Assistant.

10 Go Best Practices Every Backend Developer Should Know

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 18:08:50

Go has become a cornerstone language for building scalable backend services, cloud-native applications, and DevOps tooling. While Go’s simplicity is one of its greatest strengths, writing production-ready Go code requires more than just knowing the syntax. This guide distills practical best practices that teams can adopt to improve code quality, consistency, and maintainability. If you're new to Go, start with the official Go documentation and Effective Go. This article builds on those foundations with team-specific patterns that work well in enterprise environments.

From On-Call to On-Guard: Hardening Incident Response Against Security-Driven Outages

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 17:08:50

The pager doesn't care why production is burning. A compromised credential chain triggering mass file encryption demands the same midnight scramble as a misconfigured load balancer taking down the payment gateway. Yet most organizations still maintain separate playbooks, separate escalation trees, separate war rooms for "technical incidents" versus "security incidents" — as if attackers politely wait for the right team to clock in. This artificial boundary is killing response times when every minute counts.

How to Build Permission-Aware Retrieval That Doesn't Leak Across Teams

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 16:08:50

LLM assistants or chatbots are very good at connecting the dots, which is exactly why they can be dangerous in multi-team organizations. A PM from team A asks, 'Why did the churn rate spike last Wednesday?' The assistant retrieves and displays an answer written by Team B, which includes customer names and contact details. Even if you block the final answer, the leak may have already occurred through retried snippets, intermediate summaries, cached results, etc. If your retrieval layer isn't permission-aware end-to-end, the model can pull context from other teams' documents, tickets, dashboards, or embeddings. This is not just about blocking access. In reality, leaks happen during retrieval, summarization, inside tool traces/logs, or via shared embedding stores.

Testing Legacy JSP Code

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 15:08:50

JSP might be old, not fancy, or trendy anymore, but many legacy systems still use it, and there are development teams tasked with maintaining and extending systems with a JSP frontend (see https://webtechsurvey.com/technology/javaserver-pages). What can you do when you need to work on a code base that has unit tests for the Java code, but a significant part of the code base is living in (an untested) frontend code and is prone to failures? You can rely on code reviews or pull requests, but that seems insufficient to flag even trivial issues. You can wait for manual testers or automated UI tests to find problems after the change was deployed to the QA environment, but that is way too late and cumbersome.

Why “At-Least-Once” Is a Lie: Lessons from Java Event Systems at Global Scale

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 14:08:50

At-least-once delivery is treated like a safety net in Java event systems. Nothing gets lost. Retries handle failures. Duplicates are “a consumer problem.” It sounds practical, even mature. That assumption doesn’t survive production.

Functional Scaffolding for LLM Solutions

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 13:08:50

Slingshot Your Way to Secure, Efficient AI Solutions I have always been fascinated by the elliptical trail maneuvers of gravity-assisted slingshots in rocketry. Somehow, it feels comparable to how we reach our goals in the AI solutions world — moving from a starting point to a target destination. A gravitational slingshot leverages every planet in its path — using each body’s gravity to gain momentum (saving fuel in the process) — until the spacecraft is flung toward its destination. The starting point is analogous to our problem statement, and the destination is the target state we wish to achieve with AI agents. The smarter the agents, the greater the efficiency, the less compute “fuel” burned, and the faster we reach the final solution.

When Kubernetes Forgets: The 90-Second Evidence Gap

Aggregated on: 2026-02-18 12:08:50

The Contradiction At 3:47 AM, your monitoring dashboard shows a healthy Kubernetes cluster — 99.97% availability. Your customers report a complete outage. Ninety seconds later, the pod has self-healed. Metrics look normal. The restart counter reads “1.” But why it restarted — what actually happened — has vanished. This isn’t a tooling failure. The system simply recovered faster than a human could observe.

Trust No Agent: How to Secure Autonomous Tools on Your Machine

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 21:08:50

Two weeks ago, one of my friends called me and asked if it was a good idea to install OpenClaw on a personal machine. The immediate thought that crossed my mind was how about security and how to reduce the blast radius if the OpenClaw is compromised. Autonomous agent tools are reshaping how we work. Tools like OpenClaw and Picoclaw can write code, make API calls, read files, and interact with external services on your behalf. They're incredibly useful. But they're also a significant security risk if you don't know what you're doing. Over the past few weeks, I have been working with these tools on my Mac and Linux workstations. I have friends running agents with full access to their home directory. They have stored API keys in plaintext environment files. They have connected agent machines to their main network with no isolation. Each time we interact, I realize how quickly things could go wrong.

Diffs Are Dead. Why You Need Scalable Previews.

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 21:08:50

The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is going through a massive shift as coding agents become increasingly ubiquitous in the industry. While this has very visible impacts that have been widely documented, it also results in more subtle changes that are less obvious. I noticed one of those changes recently: code review has all but died without us noticing. I have seen this happen on my own engineering team. Senior engineers known for meticulous review are approving pull requests (PRs) within minutes.

The Human-in-the-Loop AI: Reviving the Lost Art of Procedure Manuals

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 20:23:50

We often treat “automation” and “documentation” as enemies. The prevailing DevOps wisdom is that if you have a runbook, you should automate it into a script. If you can’t automate it, you tolerate it as toil. However, in complex cloud operations (CloudOps), there are persistent “Non-Automated Domain” tasks that require human judgment, complex troubleshooting, or legacy system interaction. When these tasks fail, it’s rarely because the engineer lacked skill; it’s because the documentation was ambiguous, outdated, or written by someone who left the company three years ago.

Beyond Ingestion: Teaching Your NiFi Flows to Think

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 19:23:50

If you are working with data pipelines, chances are you have crossed paths with Apache NiFi. For years, it's been the go-to way for getting data from point A to point B (and often C, D, and E). Its visual interface makes building complex routing, transformation, and delivery flows surprisingly easy, handling everything from simple log collection to intricate IoT data streams across countless organizations. It's powerful, it's flexible, and honestly, it just works really well for shuffling bits around reliably. We set up our sources, connect our processors, define our destinations, and watch the data flow — job done, right? AI Opportunity Well, mostly. While Apache NiFi is fantastic at the logistics of data movement, I started wondering: what if we could make the data smarter while it's still in motion? We hear about AI everywhere, crunching massive datasets after they've landed in a data lake or warehouse. But what about adding that intelligence during ingestion? Imagine enriching events, making routing decisions based on predictions, or flagging anomalies before the data even hits its final storage.

Design and Implementation of Cloud-Native Microservice Architectures for Scalable Insurance Analytics Platforms

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Objective Statement This study proposes a scalable, modular, and cloud-native microservice architecture tailored for the insurance industry. The goal is to enable rapid enterprise-wide analytics adoption, seamless AI integration, and real-time data processing through containerization, orchestration, and service-based deployment models that enhance scalability, agility, and system resilience. Problem Context Although insurers are among the earliest adopters of artificial intelligence, fewer than 10% have successfully scaled AI initiatives beyond pilot programs. Most struggle with monolithic legacy systems, fragmented data pipelines, and rigid IT infrastructures that limit agility and interoperability. Insights from Risk & Insurance (2024) and McKinsey & Company (2014–2023) reveal that organizational silos and outdated core technologies prevent carriers from realizing the full business value of analytics. Addressing this gap requires a cloud-native, microservice-based architecture capable of supporting continuous delivery, real-time analytics, and ecosystem-wide integration.

Leading Through the Chaos of Large-Scale Cloud Operations: 7 Best Practices

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 17:23:50

High-scale systems fail in many unexpected ways that you would never have designed for. Over the past 14 years, I have navigated the layers of physical and virtual networking. I started as an individual contributor writing code for data plane services and later led global teams managing highly distributed services that owned millions of hosts. I have seen a wide range of incidents, including multi-service impacts, single-service impacts, cascading failures, single-customer issues, service failures during incident recovery, service failures post-recovery, and services that cannot auto-recover. The list goes on and on. I have studied the root causes of major outages across the industry’s cloud leaders. There are common failure patterns across the industry. While these events are inevitable, based on my experience, adhering to the best practices below for managing failures will greatly improve your ability to handle them. These are the seven best practices I recommend to keep teams efficient during large-scale incidents and help reduce the impact time.

The Citizen Developer Boom: How Generative AI Lowers the Barrier to Entry

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For years, enterprises have chased the dream of “Citizen Development”—empowering non-engineers to build their own tools using low-code/no-code platforms. The promise is enticing: business users solve their own problems, IT backlogs shrink, and innovation accelerates. However, the reality is often different. Adoption stalls because the “low-code” barrier is still too high for the average employee. They get stuck on API integration, basic logic flow, or security compliance.

From Prompts to Platforms: Scaling Agentic AI (Part 1)

Aggregated on: 2026-02-17 15:23:50

The industry is shifting from passive generative AI — systems that simply respond to prompts — to active, goal-driven, agentic AI. This is more than a race toward better model benchmarks; it represents a fundamental change in how we architect platforms for autonomous execution at scale. From building agentic systems that power job seeker, hiring, and sales use cases, I’ve seen firsthand how difficult it is to move from proof of concept to a global ecosystem serving millions of members. Scaling these systems requires addressing latency, cost, and reliability challenges while preserving modularity and extensibility.

Open Notebook: A Secure Alternative to Google NotebookLM

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Google NotebookLM is a powerful AI tool for interacting with your documents. However, privacy concerns might prevent you from uploading sensitive data to NotebookLM. There is an open source alternative by means of Open Notebook. All data can be kept local, and you are not restricted to Google's Gemini models. Let's check this out! Introduction Google NotebookLM lets you upload your documents and get insights about the documents using Google's Gemini models. It is a very powerful and convenient tool.

AI Transformation Anti-Patterns (And How to Diagnose Them)

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TL;DR: AI Transformation Anti-Patterns AI initiatives fail for the same reasons Agile transformations did: The majority of failures result from people, culture, and processes, not technology. This article gives you a diagnostic checklist of 10 AI transformation anti-patterns to spot where your organization’s initiatives are coming off track. Why Your AI Initiative Is Failing Your organization announced an AI initiative, the leadership bought licenses, and someone launched a pilot. The quarterly review called it a success. Six months later, nobody uses it.

Responding to HTTP Session Expiration on the Front-End via WebSockets

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There is no doubt that nowadays software applications and products that have a significant contribution to our well-being are real-time. Real-time software makes systems responsive, reliable, and safe, especially in cases where timing is important — from healthcare and defense to entertainment and transportation. Such applications are helpful as they process and respond to data almost instantly or within a guaranteed time frame, which is critical when timing and accuracy directly affect performance, safety, or even user experience. As a protocol that enables real-time, two-way (full-duplex) communication between a client and a server over a single, long-lived TCP connection, WebSockets are among the technologies used by such applications.

My Learning About Password Hashing After Moving Beyond Bcrypt

Aggregated on: 2026-02-16 20:23:49

For a long time, I thought I had password hashing figured out. Like many Java developers, I relied on bcrypt, mostly because it’s the default choice in Spring Security. It was easy to use, widely recommended, and treated in tutorials as "the secure option." I plugged it in, shipped features, and moved on.

Automatic Data Correlation: Why Modern Observability Tools Fail and Cost Engineers Time

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When a production issue hits, it starts a race to find the data that shows you what went wrong. And in many engineering organizations, the data search takes longer than understanding what the bug is — or coding the fix itself. This is what I call the “correlation problem”: the information you need to debug an issue exists, but it’s scattered across multiple tools, systems, and log files.

Breaking the Vendor Lock in Network Automation: A Pure Python Architecture

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In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), servers are a solved problem. We spin up thousands of VMs with a single script. But the network layer? That often remains a manual bottleneck. The reason is the “Multi-Vendor Trap.” Enterprise networks are rarely homogeneous. They are a patchwork of routers, switches, and load balancers from different vendors (Cisco, Juniper, F5), each with its own proprietary CLI syntax. This fragmentation makes standard automation difficult, leading to long lead times (often weeks) just to open a VLAN or update a firewall rule.

Stop Fine-Tuning for Everything: A Decision Tree for RAG vs Tuning vs Tools

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I used to treat fine-tuning like the “grown-up” step in an LLM project. Prototype with prompts → hit a problem → fine-tune it.

Schema Evolution in Event-Driven Systems: Avro/Protobuf Strategies That Don’t Break Consumers

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Most schema-evolution advice is technically correct and still gets teams hurt. It usually stops at “add fields, don’t remove fields,” and skips the parts that cause real incidents: semantic drift, consumer lag, unknown consumers, and silent failures. In an event-driven system, the most dangerous break is the one that doesn’t crash anything — it just produces wrong results quietly.

Building a Self-Correcting GraphRAG Pipeline for Enterprise Observability

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The RAG Plateau: Why Vector Search Is Failing the Enterprise In the early days of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) was a revelation. By grounding large language models (LLMs) in external data, we solved the immediate problem of static knowledge. However, as we move through 2026, enterprise developers have hit what I call the "RAG Plateau." Standard RAG relies on vector databases and cosine similarity. This works perfectly for "flat" queries—where the answer exists within a single paragraph of text. But enterprise data isn't flat; it’s a web of interconnected dependencies. If you ask an AI, "Which microservices are at risk if the 'User-Auth' database experiences 500ms latency?", a vector search will find snippets about "User-Auth" and "Latency." It will almost certainly fail to map the three-hop relationship between the database, the authentication service, and the downstream billing gateway.

Automating the DFIR Triage Loop With Memory Forensics and LLMs

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Most modern security operations centers (SOCs) face a problem of speed and volume of data collection. While collecting data is no longer the issue in many cases, analyzing it is — especially during high-priority incidents. To collect forensic evidence in many cases, analysts manually run multiple tools: Volatility for memory dumps, YARA for malware signatures, and strings for basic text search. Each tool creates a different output. The combination of all of those outputs is required for meaningful analysis. Manual correlation of these outputs is time-consuming and error-prone. Manual correlation of forensic outputs also contributes to alert fatigue — when the number of alerts becomes so large that they cannot be reasonably processed by humans.

Building Intelligent Agents With MCP and LangGraph

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We're at an interesting point in AI development. Language models have become very good at understanding and generating text, but they still can't do much independently. They can't check your calendar, pull data from your database, or send that email you've been meaning to write. Whenever we want to give an AI system a new capability, we have to write custom integration code. It’s like having a brilliant assistant who requires a new instruction manual for every single task. The Model Context Protocol is working to solve this issue, and honestly, it's about time someone stepped up.

The Death of the CSS Selector: Architecting Resilient, AI-Powered Web Scrapers

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Introduction: The High Cost of Fragile Data Pipelines For over a decade, web scraping has been a game of cat and mouse. You write a script to scrape a job board, targeting specific DOM elements like div.job-title or span#salary. It works perfectly for a month. Then, the website deploys a frontend update. The class names change to random hashes (common in React/Next.js apps), your selectors fail, and your data pipeline crashes. The hidden cost of web scraping isn't the compute; it's the engineering maintenance hours spent debugging and fixing broken selectors.

AI Agents Demystified: From Language Models to Autonomous Intelligence

Aggregated on: 2026-02-13 20:23:48

What Exactly Is an AI Agent? Artificial Intelligence has entered a new phase, one where systems no longer just respond, but reason, plan, and act. Language models like GPT, Gemini, or Claude are incredibly powerful, but they live inside a box. They can generate, summarize, and explain, but they can’t take real-world action unless connected to something beyond themselves. That’s where AI agents come in.

A Guide to Parallax and Scroll-Based Animations

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Parallax animation can transform static web pages into immersive, interactive experiences. While traditional parallax relies on simple background image movement and tons of JavaScript code, scroll-based CSS animation opens up a world of creative possibilities with no JavaScript at all. In this guide, we’ll explore two distinct approaches: SVG block animation: Creating movement using SVG graphics for unique, customizable effects. Multi-image parallax background: Stacking and animating multiple image layers for a classic parallax illusion. We'll walk through each technique step by step, compare their strengths and limitations, and offer practical tips for responsive design.

Quantum-Safe Trading Systems: Preparing Risk Engines for the Post-Quantum Threat

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The Coming Break in Trust Picture this: a structured BRL-USD note is booked and hedged in 2025, stitched across FX triggers, callable steps, and a sovereign curve that looks stable enough to lull even the cautious. Trade capture is clean, risk logs balance, settlement acknowledges signatures, and the desk moves on. Years pass. The note remains live, coupons roll, collateral terms are amended twice, and the position is referenced by downstream analytics and audit trails that assume the original cryptographic guarantees still hold. Then the ground shifts. Adversaries who quietly harvested network traffic in 2025 now possess hardware that can break the RSA and ECC protections that guarded those artifacts. The trade’s lineage—what was agreed, authorized, and attested — no longer rests on unforgeable proofs. It rests on assumptions that no longer apply. This is not a scare line for a compliance deck. It is a systems problem with direct pricing consequences. If a payoff confirmation, margin call message, or risk model artifact can be replayed, altered, or repudiated because yesterday’s signatures are breakable tomorrow, the integrity of the entire lifecycle is at risk. You can mark a curve correctly and still be wrong if the attestation that links a payout to a specific state of the world becomes suspect.