1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1847+ words) I was showing off a support assistant I'd wired up over the Model Context Protocol. Small thing: it could search our docs and open a doc by name. A teammate, being a teammate, pasted this into the chat pretending to…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1561+ words) This is Part 1 of a three-part field manual on engineering production agentic systems. Part 1 takes context engineering. Part 2 takes guardrails. Part 3 takes human-in-the-loop topology. The conviction underneath all three: production agentic systems are won on these three architectural disciplines — not…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (510+ words) This article shares the technical patterns, code snippets, and real-world lessons I’ve applied while shipping multiple production-grade agentic systems. Agentic AI Control Plane Architecture Most teams start governance the same way: form a steering committee, write acceptable-use policies, stuff long…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (857+ words) One of the most consequential decisions in any enterprise cloud migration is deceptively simple to state and surprisingly hard to answer: do we move the workload as-is, or do we modernize it first? Having worked through cloud migrations across dozens…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (398+ words) Most "RAG tutorials" stop at a single embedding query against a single index. That works for a demo and falls over the moment a real user asks something like "compare our Q3 and Q4 vendor contracts and flag anything that changed" — a…...

2+ day, 4+ min ago   (1042+ words) However, it is still alive and embedded in the structure of the work in many organizations, not as a named process but as an unexamined assumption. Not "we do waterfall" — nobody says that. But: "the feature goes to QA when…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (646+ words) Here’s what is actually shifting, and what stays the same. Three things broke that stability roughly in parallel: The third shift is the one reshaping job descriptions in 2026. Back-ends today are managed and governed by autonomous AI Agents. Where a…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (429+ words) This is the introduction to a three-part series. It frames the conviction, names the production failure modes that motivated the series, and previews the three parts that defend the argument with engineering specifics. After eighteen months of hands-on designing agentic…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1145+ words) The systems today are too big and too interconnected to be run totally by hand. Teams are contending with noisy alerts, fragmented observability data, constant deployments, and ever more dynamic infrastructure. During incidents, engineers often burn precious minutes just to…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (575+ words) The Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges this gap by standardizing how AI applications interact with local tools. By leveraging the standalone quarkus-agent-mcp server, you can turn your local AI coding companion into a "living" pair programmer that can build, configure,…...