Your rate limiter was designed for humans
Agent traffic doesn't get tired. Four layers of your stack assume it does.
Aug 24, 202620 min read5
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The distributed monolith tax
Shopify, Amazon Prime Video and the 2026 modular-monolith pattern that beats microservices cosplay
May 6, 202611 min read9
Stop building agents like prompts. Build them like state machines.
Durable execution (Temporal, Restate, Inngest), idempotency keys for tool calls, and human-in-the-loop as an interrupt primitive.
Apr 19, 202611 min read183
The Global Cloud Blackout
Designing Systems That Survive Regional Collapse, Provider Failure & Digital Fragmentation
Feb 17, 202619 min read69
The $0 Compliance Stack
Passing Enterprise Audits Using Only Open Source
Jan 26, 20263 min read27
Caching Conundrum: Is There Truly Just One Path to API Efficiency?
Exploring Myths, Methods, and Modern Strategies to Supercharge your API Performance
Apr 14, 20254 min read53