SystemsMay 20, 2026·1 min read
Designing Idempotent Kafka Consumers That Never Double-Process
Exactly-once is a lie you tell at scale — here's how to get effectively-once with dedup keys and a transactional outbox.
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AIApr 11, 2026·1 min read
Agent Loops That Don't Run Away: Budgets, Critics, and Guardrails
Autonomous agents are great until they spend $400 in a loop. Bounded autonomy is a design discipline, not an afterthought.
BackendMar 2, 2026·1 min read
Breaking a Monolith Into Services Without Regretting It
Most microservice migrations fail by splitting on the wrong seams. Start with bounded contexts, not table names.
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