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Level UI • 22 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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czetsuya • 2 days • in Articles • 6 min read
Reliable Event-Driven Architecture in Spring Boot: Outbox, Inbox, Retries, and Idempotency
Why publishing an event is only the beginning of building a reliable distributed system. Building an event-driven application with Spring Boot is relatively straightforward. You create a Kafka producer, publish an event, implement a consumer, and p...
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  • java
  • springboot
  • microservices
  • distributed-systems
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Ken W. Algerverified • Oct 20 • in Articles • 8 min read
Tuesday Isn't a Valid State Transition
Calendars, evidence, and the difference between done and stuck I expected my pear wine to spend two to three weeks in primary fermentation. It spent nineteen days. The yeast went in on September 23, and on October 12 I siphoned the wine off its sed...
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  • software-architecture
  • systemdesign
  • observability
  • distributed-systems
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James Dayalverified • Sep 9 • in Articles • 10 min read
From E-Commerce to Agentic AI: Paul Chen’s 30-Year Developer's Journey
From E-Commerce to Agentic AI: A 30-Year Developer’s Journey I wrote my first real program in the early 1990s, sitting in a computer lab at university while working toward a Computer Science degree. Back then, programming wasn't the career everyon...
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  • devjourney
  • agenticai
  • llm
  • distributed-systems
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Valentine Shimanovsky • Aug 6 • in Articles • 1 min read
Idempotency Starts with Business Operation Identity
The hardest part of idempotency is often not the retry. It is deciding when two attempts represent the same business operation. Sometimes the identity is a request ID or external message ID. Sometimes it is a business key or a state transition that ...
  • software-engineering
  • backend
  • distributed-systems
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prasadekke • Aug 4 • in Articles • 4 min read
Determinism Is a Core Contract in Build Caching
If you have set up a remote build cache and watched the hit rate sit stubbornly low, nondeterministic outputs are one important suspect — but not the only one. Source churn, changing flags, platform differences, toolchain changes, eviction, and incom...
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  • buildsystems
  • make
  • distributed-systems
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Sergey • Jul 15 • in Articles • 2 min read
Why Modern Engineering Teams Must Prioritize System Observability Over Raw Performance
Engineering teams often chase performance: faster APIs, lower latency, optimized queries, reduced CPU usage. But in 2026, performance alone is no longer the defining factor of a reliable system. Modern architectures — distributed, event‑driven, conta...
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  • system-design
  • distributed-systems
  • concurrency
  • scalability
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tuni56 • Jul 15 • in Articles • 6 min read
The Art of Cloud Survival: The Day Monitoring Failed First
When Everything Looked Fine Modern cloud systems are built to survive failure. Applications run across multiple Availability Zones. Containers restart automatically. Serverless functions scale on demand. Databases replicate data continuously. Enti...
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  • distributed-systems
  • cloud-architecture
  • data-engineering
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Tom Smithverified • 18 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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tuni56 • Jul 2 • in Articles • 2 min read
When "Latest" isn't Actually Latest
When "Latest" Isn't Actually Latest TL;DR In distributed systems, the last record your system processes is not always the most recent event that happened in reality. Understanding the difference between Event Time and Processing Time is essential...
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  • dataengineering
  • distributed-systems
  • system-design
  • kafka
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Alex • Jun 25 • in Articles • 4 min read
The Miyake Event Problem: Anchoring Distributed Agents to Universal Time
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-miyake-event-problem/ In 2021, a team led by Margot Kuitems pinned the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows to a single year: 1021 CE. Before that work, the best est...
  • distributed-systems
  • observability
  • architecture
  • ai-agents
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tuni56 • Jun 25 • in Articles • 5 min read
The Art of Cloud Survival: When Retries Become the Outage
When Retries Become the Outage At 2:17 AM, a payment service started returning errors. Not many. Just enough to attract attention. The dashboards didn't look alarming. CPU utilization was stable. Memory consumption was within normal limits. Infrastr...
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  • distributed-systems
  • cloud-architecture
  • data-engineering
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tuni56 • Jun 11 • in Articles • 4 min read
The Hidden Cost of Distributed Systems
One of the most interesting contradictions in cloud architecture is that we spend a tremendous amount of effort trying to eliminate complexity, yet many of the systems we build seem to become more complex over time. A startup might begin with a sing...
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  • dataengineering
  • aws
  • distributed-systems
  • cloudarchitecture
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Ken W. Algerverified • May 6 • in Articles • 3 min read
Why Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Matter
Architecting for Reliability in the Age of Multi-Agent Systems We are currently over-indexing on "Model Orchestration." Every week, a new library, a new vector database, or a new framework tops the GitHub trending charts. This week it might be L...
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  • ai
  • system-architecture
  • distributed-systems
  • devops
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peculiarlibrarian • Apr 24 • in Articles • 3 min read
PC-0003—Building Minimal Governance Layers
Control Layer: Deterministic Governance in Structured Systems Executive Summary PC-0003 defines the governance layer as a formal, machine-verifiable boundary that determines which system states are admissible within a deterministic execution envi...
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  • software-engineering
  • distributed-systems
  • knowledge-graph
  • data-integrity
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mdostal • Mar 30 • in Articles • 2 min read
From AS/400s to AI Agent Swarms
I've spent 16 years building software — starting on IBM WebSphere Commerce platforms for major retailers, eventually leading architecture at companies like Hertz, DaVita, Chick-fil-A, Wayfair, and Kohl's, and now running a fractional CTO practice out...
  • architecture
  • fractional-cto
  • distributed-systems
  • ai
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Steven Stuart • Mar 11 • in Articles • 12 min read
Reporting and Production Make Terrible Roommates
I tend to think of reporting and production as incompatible roommates. They need the same space, they optimize for completely different things, and every accommodation one makes for the other is a debt that gets called in later. The production schema...
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  • software-engineering
  • software-development
  • designpatterns
  • distributed-systems
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Steven Stuart • Feb 16 • in Articles • 11 min read
Observability Is Authored, Not Installed
I have been a part of a dev team where poor observability constantly brought us to a standstill. Not because the tooling was missing, but because the data it collected never carried meaningful context. Alerts fired constantly, so operations teams ign...
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  • software-engineering
  • software-development
  • designpatterns
  • distributed-systems
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Steven Stuart • Feb 3 • in Articles • 13 min read
How Shared Libraries Become Shared Shackles
This is a highly opinionated take on shared libraries and the damage they do to team autonomy and development tempo. Teams deliver value faster and more consistently when they can make decisions, ship changes, and evolve their domains without coordin...
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  • software-engineering
  • software-development
  • designpatterns
  • distributed-systems
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Steven Stuart • Jan 12 • in Articles • 12 min read
Package Updates Are Investments, Not Hygiene Tasks
It is time to update a third-party package in your repository, or at least to consider it. So how do you know what is safe, what is needed, what is prudent, and what will keep our company from melting down in record time? To address these questions, ...
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  • software-engineering
  • software-development
  • distributed-systems
  • leadership
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Steven Stuart • Jan 5 • in Articles • 8 min read
Adaptability Over Cleverness: What Makes Code Actually Good
Systems that stay cheap to change for years aren't the ones built to fit today's requirements perfectly. They're the ones that bend without breaking when requirements shift, technologies evolve, and teams discover what they didn't know upfront. Build...
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  • software-engineering
  • software-development
  • designpatterns
  • distributed-systems
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