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Auditing an Existing Subnet Plan Before a Cloud Migration
Most subnet articles start from a blank piece of paper and end with a clean diagram. That is not the situation most teams are actually in. The situa…
Pi Coding Agent Review: Minimal, Hackable AI Coding CLI
Pi Coding Agent is a minimal, open-source terminal coding harness that ships with four default tools and leaves most of the behaviour to extensions,…
An Agent's Work Isn't "Done Later" Until You Can Find It Later
I have a habit of asking agents to pause instead of pushing through. Wait for a review. Wait for an external rate limit to clear. Wait for me to mak…
The problem with the happy path
I recently had to do a deployment for a client demo. On local everything worked fine. All the tests were passing. All the data was where it was supp…
Claude Code Subagents: Setup, Config, and When to Use Them
Most Claude Code sessions get slow and cluttered for the same reason: every exploratory grep, every log dump, and every "let me check one more file"…
Dead Letter Queues: Handling Poison Messages in Distributed Systems
A dead-letter queue is the safety net that catches messages your consumers cannot process, so one broken payload does not block or silently drop eve…
Validating JSON Payloads Against a Schema Before They Hit Your Service
A schema is only useful if it actually catches bad payloads before they reach your handler. Most teams write the schema, then forget it during local…
Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns: A Practical Guide
Single-agent AI systems peaked in 2025 — you gave one LLM a prompt, some tools, and a goal, and it did reasonably well on bounded tasks. In 2026, mu…
Omnia Ipsum: Unified placeholder content for Symfony
A prototype web page displaying pure placeholder content When building early UI prototypes or shaping design systems in Symfony, placeholder content…
Mermaid Diagrams Quickstart and Cheatsheet for Developers
Mermaid is a text-based diagramming tool for people who would rather write diagrams than drag boxes around a canvas. It uses a Markdown-like syntax…
Implementing CQRS in Go: A Practical Guide to Scalable Architecture
CQRS is one of those patterns that gets oversold, overcomplicated, and occasionally misdiagnosed as a cure for plain old CRUD boredom. The useful ve…
The One Tool That Changed How I Think About API Performance
API stress testing is broken. Here's how we're fixing it. Let's be honest for a moment. If you've ever had to run a stress test, you know the drill.…
Go Unit Testing: Structure & Best Practices
Go's built-in testing package provides a powerful, minimalist framework for writing unit tests without external dependencies. Here are the testing f…
Idempotency in Distributed Systems That Actually Works
Idempotency in distributed systems is the property that saves you after the network lies, the queue retries, the client panics, and the operator hit…