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This week: two bool.dev guides on hidden EF Core costs and consolidating microservices without losing module boundaries; Booking.com’s production investigation into Node.js resource efficiency; and LinkedIn’s move to a dedicated shuffle service for Spark and Flink.

Every migration guide explains how to split a monolith. This one goes the other way: a test for which services to merge, and seven patterns for merging them back into a modular monolith without a big-bang rewrite, each with its cost.

Weekend Reading #98: AI agent terminology, Uber’s MCP Gateway, Zalando’s delegated identity broker, and Meta’s petabit-class subsea cable design.

30 AI terms in two or three plain sentences each, placed on one diagram: what the model sees, what it can call, and what runs around it. MCP, skills, hooks, subagents, RAG, workflows, and the pairs people mix up.

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