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.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
Once an AI agent can push to Git, prompt injection becomes an authorization problem. Six things to build before agents get write access: a scoped identity, policy outside the model, a sandbox, MCP review, advisory CI, and traces.
EF Core makes the slow path look exactly like the fast path. A scan, an N+1 loop, and a cartesian join all read like clean LINQ. This guide walks through 18 concrete mistakes across querying, related data, change tracking, indexes, plan caching, and context overhead, with the fix for each and a ready-to-use rule for your AI coding assistant.
Weekend Reading #96 covers AI controls across the SDLC, Meta’s confidential processing architecture for AI glasses, automated dependency analysis across Uber’s service mesh, and Elastic’s benchmark-driven system for safely optimizing Elasticsearch with coding agents.
AI across the software development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture to coding, testing, deployment, operations, security, and compliance. Practical guidance on AI authority, deterministic controls, human ownership, and safe engineering workflows.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
AI speeds up coding, but shifts pressure to review, testing, security, maintainability, and CI. This article examines seven failure modes of AI-assisted development and where engineering teams should respond.
Weekly engineering digest: DefenseTech systems, Google AI agent evaluation, Meta expert AI agents, and Allegro search relevance evaluation.
A practical overview of MilTech and DefenseTech for software engineers, covering drones, AI, autonomy, electronic warfare, edge computing, C2 systems, tech stacks, major industry players, development constraints, and current trends shaped by the war in Ukraine.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
How X’s For You feed works, from candidate retrieval and Phoenix scoring to engagement weights, visibility rules, diversification, caching, and final feed assembly.
This week: Netflix shares how it runs LLM serving inside its own production ML platform, Uber shows a scalable identity-verification architecture for Apple Wallet IDs, Meta connects AI storage design directly to GPU utilization, and Cloudflare explains a reliability-focused redesign of Workers KV after a major outage.
Weekly engineering digest: Canva session revocations, Meta BPF scheduling, stateless MCP, and Cloudflare Kitesurf for AI agents.
This week: a practical guide to 10 ADR anti-patterns with concrete examples showing how to write architecture decisions that actually help your team. Uber shares two infrastructure deep dives — making OpenSearch zone-failure resilient with isolation groups and forced shard allocation awareness, and GitFarm, a Git-as-a-Service platform that delivers full monorepo checkouts in under 500ms. And Dropbox traces the decade-long evolution of Riviera from file preview service to a universal content processing platform now powering AI ingestion at 2.5 billion requests per day.
Weekly tech digest featuring a massive Agile & Scrum interview guide with DORA metrics and scaling patterns, Uber's Cart Assistant agentic grocery system built on multi-prompt state graphs, Slack's Shipyard immutable EC2 platform with layered AMIs and automatic instance cycling, and Stripe's graph-based auto-remediation system cutting MongoDB pager volume by 30%.
Weekly tech digest featuring a practical guide to 17 prioritization frameworks with formulas and examples, Netflix's brutally honest Service Topology production postmortem, Uber's SPIRE-backed AI agent identity framework with full actor chain propagation, and Uber's artifact storage modernization cutting 5PB/month egress by 99% with a custom validation proxy.
Weekly tech digest featuring a comprehensive AI interview guide for .NET engineers covering LLMs, RAG, agents, and MCP with C# examples, Zalando's in-process client-side load balancer handling 1M RPS with occupancy-based bounded load, Netflix's Vera and VOID research models for controllable AI video editing, and LinkedIn's autonomous QA Agent using vision-language models for AI-driven testing at scale.
In this article, I will explain 10 anti-patterns in Architecture Decision Records and how to avoid them. Consider this article a guide to following Best Practices and creating a good Architecture Decision Record (ADR).