RAG vs MCP is the wrong debate — here's the right framing for production AI systems
The question I keep seeing in every AI engineering forum right now: "Should we use RAG or MCP?" It's the wrong question. And the fact that it's being …
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Flip the Axis: A Layer-Based Approach to Multi-Service Migrations
TL;DR When you're migrating many services through the same steps, parallelize by step, not by service. Sweep one type of change across all services, t…
Risk Management for Developers: A 2026 Practitioner Guide"
At 04:09 UTC on July 19, 2024, a single CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update hit production. Within minutes, roughly 8.5 million Windows machines across a…
If You Were a Server: How to Detect Issues and Keep Things Running Smoothly
Here is a question that often pops up in senior web developer and backend interviews: "If you were a server, how would you detect that you're having i…
Prometheus at Scale: Surviving the Cardinality Cliff
The Day Prometheus Fell Over Prometheus memory usage spiked from 8GB to 32GB overnight. OOM-killed. Monitoring was down for 20 minutes while we scramb…
How to Build Systems That Don’t Collapse at Global Scale
Modern systems rarely fail because of one small bug. They fail when there’s no plan for when things inevitably go wrong. In 2026, with global teams, m…
Part 2: Hands-on tc Framework: Building a Full-Stack Async API with Pages
Introduction: The Practical Graph This post will show a practical, hands-on example that implements a serverless topology using the tc (Topology Compo…
Intro to tc Cloud Functors: A Graph-First Mental Model for the Modern Cloud
This is the first part of a multipart series introducing tc Cloud Functors The Monolith in the Desert Problem Sometimes I feel like the Forrest Gump o…
Backpressure in document pipelines is an architecture problem first
When document teams talk about reliability, extraction quality usually gets the spotlight first. That makes sense, but another issue becomes visible v…
Кто мониторит монитор? Рекурсивная задача, у которой нет чистого решения
У вас есть Grafana. Она показывает графики с Prometheus. Prometheus скрейпит метрики с ваших сервисов. Если сервис упал — вы видите красный на дашборд…
Как найти причину латенси в пайплайне обработки HTTP запроса за 5 минут: разбираем шаг за шагом
Как найти причину латенси в пайплайне обработки HTTP запроса за 5 минут: разбираем шаг за шагом Я достаточно ленивый и рациональный человек. В конце п…
What Changes and What Stays the Same for SRE with AWS Frontier Agents
On March 31, 2026, AWS made DevOps Agent and Security Agent generally available — the first two of the autonomous AI agents announced at re:Invent 202…
Why uptime and synthetic monitors still matter in the age of APM
Modern observability—think Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and similar stacks—gives you deep insight: traces, service maps, golden signals, and often rea…
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Hey, I'm Samson — and I built Nova AI Ops because I was tired of being paged at 3 AM. For years, I watched SRE teams (including my own) drown in the s…
What 99.9% Uptime Actually Means: 8.7 Hours of Downtime Per Year
You've seen it everywhere. On hosting pages, SaaS pricing tables, cloud provider dashboards: "99.9% uptime guaranteed" Sounds impressive. Almost perfe…
Designing a Scalable Recovery Service for Distributed Systems
Failures are a normal and expected part of distributed systems. If your application processes data asynchronously—for example, by consuming messages f…
How We Made Next.js ISR Page Cache Efficient with Redis
Next.js ISR works great on a single pod. But the moment you scale to multiple replicas — whether on Kubernetes , ECS , Cloud Foundry , or any orchestr…
Your Kubernetes backups are lying to you
Every Kubernetes backup tool says "Backup Completed." Velero, Kasten, TrilioVault, Portworx — they all do backup brilliantly. Green dashboards, succes…