1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (167+ words) In this article, I describe a set of tools and processes that can be incorporated to improve alerting effectiveness for large-scale distributed systems. Teams typically apply rigorous engineering practices to production code, including unit testing, integration testing, formal code reviews,…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (741+ words) Organizations don't have an identity crisis. They have a trust accounting crisis. Nobody is keeping the books. Call it the trust surface. Attack Surface answers "what can attackers reach?" Trust Surface answers a different question: "what can entities we've already…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (723+ words) Six months ago, building a RAG pipeline meant a full week of plumbing: an embedding job here, a vector store there, a retriever glued on with duct tape, and an orchestration layer that broke every time you touched it. I've…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (839+ words) Building a single AI agent is not usually the hard part. You send a prompt to a model, get a response back, and wire it into your app. Done. I have seen this fail in boring ways: None of this…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (873+ words) Throughout my career, I’ve held many roles in the QA conversation: So when “AI test generation” started appearing as part of every testing product, I was both interested…and skeptical. After spending time with several of these tools, I’ve decided…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (807+ words) Here's a scenario worth thinking about. A financial reconciliation agent is running. It authenticated correctly; the token is valid; every check at session start passed. Twelve minutes in, it reads 847 invoices in 12 seconds. The baseline rate is 15 per minute. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (592+ words) If you've spent more than a year building enterprise Java apps, you've probably felt this specific kind of pain: a product manager asks for a new search filter, and you open your repository file to find it already has 18 methods....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1684+ words) Most SRE teams do not need another dashboard. They need a safer way to move from "something is wrong" to "we know what to do next." A model that detects anomalies is useful. A model that can touch production can…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (775+ words) Cross-border e-commerce sellers often spend hours comparing the same products across different Amazon marketplaces. Prices, reviews, and seller signals vary by country, but the process is still largely manual. I wanted to see how far I could automate it with…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (828+ words) Your agent's tools are trusted. Its inputs aren't. The Model Context Protocol quietly assembles the three ingredients of a data breach — and no amount of prompting will take them apart. The fix is architectural. In May 2025, researchers at Invariant Labs…...