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Practical notes on AI tools, programming, software engineering, and technology.
Engineering for the Agentic Era: Infrastructure, Identity, and Operational Control
As AI agents gain execution autonomy in production, software engineering focus is shifting from code generation to security boundaries, identity stacks, and observability.
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Understanding Database Locks: Row, Page, and Table Level Mechanics
A practical breakdown of database locking mechanisms, isolation levels, and lock escalation to prevent deadlocks and performance degradation in production.
How to Evaluate a RAG Application With a Regression Test Set
Build a practical RAG evaluation loop with retrieval metrics, answer checks, citations, human review, judge models, and release gates.
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Choosing a Database Migration Strategy for Production Teams
Compare expand-and-contract migrations, backfills, locks, rollback limits, monitoring, and release sequencing for safer production database changes.
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How to Design a Reliable Webhook Receiver
A practical guide to webhook receivers: signature checks, idempotency, retries, ordering, persistence, observability, and tests.
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday Shows the New Cost of AI-Found Vulnerabilities
Microsoft’s July 2026 security update fixed hundreds of vulnerabilities. The larger lesson is how AI-assisted discovery changes patching pressure for technology teams.
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$1.6 Billion in Idle DeFi Liquidity Shows the Cost of Inactive Capital
A 1inch report says roughly $1.6 billion in crypto liquidity is sitting outside active trading ranges. Here is what the estimate means for traders and liquidity providers.
Claude Sonnet 5 Just Dropped. Here's What Developers Should Know.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a model that nearly matches Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost. Here's what changed and whether it matters for your workflow.
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GLM 5.2 and the Coming AI Margin Collapse: What Open-Weights Models Mean for API Providers
A Chinese open-weights model just matched GPT and Opus performance. Here's why that changes the economics of AI inference for every developer.
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EU Pushes Chat Control Back Through the Fast Track. Here's Why Encryption Is in Trouble Again.
The EU Council just reactivated expired messenger scanning rules via a legal trick right before Parliament's summer break. Here's what happened and what it means.