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July 2026 · Engineering
Most teams reach for microservices to solve team and scaling problems. They end up with distributed systems problems instead. Here's why modular monolith is the correct default — and how to extract services when they actually earn it.
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July 2026 · Engineering
The Linear vs. Jira debate is framed as speed vs. bloat. The real question is which one matches the shape of your organization — and most teams get the framing wrong.
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July 2026 · Engineering
Teams keep shipping multi-agent orchestration before they've built agent identity, auth, and observability — the same order platform engineering already proved backwards, for humans, a decade ago.
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July 2026 · Engineering
Every additional agent in a pipeline looks like more capability. In practice it's more failure surface — and almost nobody runs the reliability math before building it.
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June 2026 · Engineering
Most teams point AI at a vague idea and expect clean code. The teams shipping faster MVPs are doing the opposite — letting the AI interview them before it writes a single line.
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June 2026 · Engineering
Cache-Aside, Read-Through, Write-Back, Write-Around, and Write-Through — how each pattern handles CRUD operations, when to use them, and the tradeoffs that matter in production.
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June 2026 · Engineering
Most developers think MCP is a chatbot feature. It's actually an architecture decision about how your product exposes capabilities to AI — and the window to get ahead of it is closing.
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June 2026 · Engineering
It's not your prompt. It's not your model. The fix is upstream — and most developers never look there.
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