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Dynamic Tool Selection: A Portable Pattern for Agents Drowning in Tool Schemas

I stumbled onto this pattern while building agents with Deep Agents, watching a tool registry grow past the point where sending every schema on eve...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 7:00 pm

Handling Large API Responses Without Freezing the Client: A Practical Architecture With Temporal, Kafka, and RAG

A large API response becomes a client problem long before it becomes a network problem. A browser can receive hundreds of megabytes and still becom...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Every Java developer who runs services on Kubernetes has watched this scene play out. Traffic spikes, the autoscaler adds a pod, and then everyone ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

How I Run Two AI Coding Agents on One Codebase

Parallel coding agents create a concurrency problem before they create a productivity gain. Two autonomous processes that edit the same checkout ca...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

Making Running Optional: Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes With Agent Substrate

What if you could multiplex roughly 250 stateful agent sessions across eight Kubernetes worker Pods, then reactivate any one without losing its in-...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 12:00 pm

3D Air Quality Maps With Neo4j, Python, and R

Air quality across the Pyrenees corridor is a pressing concern, particularly during summer heatwaves and wildfire seasons. In this region, cities o...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 1:00 pm

Enterprise Architecture in the AI Era: Tools, Capabilities, and the Road to Autonomy

An enterprise architecture (EA) tool is a software platform that enterprises use to capture, connect, and continuously maintain a structured pictur...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 7:00 pm

Designing Replay-Safe CDC Pipelines With Kafka, Debezium, and Recovery Contracts

Change data capture (CDC) pipelines look straightforward on paper: capture database changes, publish them to Kafka, and update downstream systems. ...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

Building a Zero-Cost Daily Job Alert Pipeline on GitHub Actions

I needed a job to run once a day, remember what it did yesterday, and cost nothing to operate. The obvious answer is a small VM with cron, or a Lam...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database

Most developers I've worked with write SQL every day. Very few of them are DBAs. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey — 65,000 dev...
Posted on 31 August 2026 | 3:00 pm

Inside terraform-provider-archive: A Memory Pattern From 2016 That Scales With Your Lambdas

A CI Runner That Shouldn't Have Died If you deploy AWS Lambdas through Terraform, you almost certainly use archive_file. With enough lambdas, a sin...
Posted on 31 August 2026 | 1:00 pm

Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Key Takeaways In regulated industries, cloud migration success is determined less by technology selection and more by how deliberately you decoup...
Posted on 28 August 2026 | 4:00 pm

Member Spotlight: Shamsher Khan

There’s always more to our contributors than what you see in their author profiles. For our latest Member Spotlight, I sat down with Shamsher Khan ...
Posted on 28 August 2026 | 1:30 pm

Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin

In a chapter of The SingleStore Cookbook, there is a complete sentiment analysis pipeline using Rust compiled to WebAssembly and loaded directly in...
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 2:00 pm

Part 1: Building Governed MCP Tool Services With Quarkus LangChain4j and Goose

Goose — the open-source, Rust-based AI developer agent from Block (donated to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation) — interacts natively wi...
Posted on 26 August 2026 | 6:00 pm

Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

Most Docker content targets web developers shipping stateless services. However, data engineers, who represent a huge and growing population of Doc...
Posted on 25 August 2026 | 7:00 pm

Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Isolating PHI Workloads Without Slowing Down Engineering Teams

Most engineering teams working on healthtech applications reach a point where someone asks a question that sounds simple but isn't: How do we make ...
Posted on 24 August 2026 | 7:00 pm

Ground Truth for AI-Written Code: Why Context Matters More Than Prompts

Ground Truth for AI-Written Code Session capture, per-line attribution, and selection-bias-free agent benchmarks, on top of the Git host you alread...
Posted on 24 August 2026 | 5:00 pm

Agents and Tools in Agentic AI: A Simple Explanation

In this article, we will build a simple understanding of the following: What a model is Why a model needs tools What tools are How an agent us...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:00 pm

AWS Bedrock vs Vertex AI vs Azure Foundry: Stop Comparing Benchmarks, Start Asking This Instead

Every few weeks, someone on my team, or in a client meeting, asks me the same question: "Which cloud should we use for our AI workloads?" I have be...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 3:00 pm