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Forget Distributed Tracing, AI Requires Chain-of-Thought Tracing

Forget Distributed Tracing, AI Requires Chain-of-Thought Tracing

Feb 17, 2026 4 min read

How Netflix Queries Its Infrastructure Graph with Plain English

How Netflix Queries Its Infrastructure Graph with Plain English

Feb 16, 2026 4 min read

Stop Blaming Your eBPF Code. The Kernel's Data Structures are the Bottleneck.

Stop Blaming Your eBPF Code. The Kernel's Data Structures are the Bottleneck.

Feb 15, 2026 4 min read

Your Database Now Scales Horizontally Without You Rewriting a Single Query

Your Database Now Scales Horizontally Without You Rewriting a Single Query

Feb 14, 2026 4 min read

Package Registries Are Becoming Active Security Scanners

Package Registries Are Becoming Active Security Scanners

Feb 13, 2026 4 min read

Stop Arguing About Delta vs. Iceberg. The Format War is Over.

data-engineering

Stop Arguing About Delta vs. Iceberg. The Format War is Over.

Feb 12, 2026 4 min read

DORA metrics are misleading; the real bottleneck is cognitive load.

Developer Experience

DORA metrics are misleading; the real bottleneck is cognitive load.

Feb 11, 2026 5 min read

Your Biggest Cloud Waste Isn't Idle VMs, It's Connection Handling

Your Biggest Cloud Waste Isn't Idle VMs, It's Connection Handling

Feb 10, 2026 4 min read

Forget Manual Profiling: AI Performance Is Now an Automated Platform Problem

Forget Manual Profiling: AI Performance Is Now an Automated Platform Problem

Feb 9, 2026 4 min read

Your WAF Can't Protect You From Prompt Injection

Your WAF Can't Protect You From Prompt Injection

Feb 8, 2026 4 min read

For Real-Time AI, Your Data Contract Is a Liveness Probe, Not a Schema

Data Engineering

For Real-Time AI, Your Data Contract Is a Liveness Probe, Not a Schema

Feb 7, 2026 5 min read

The Web is Rebuilding Itself for AI Agents, Not Humans

The Web is Rebuilding Itself for AI Agents, Not Humans

Feb 6, 2026 4 min read

The Industry is Quietly Moving Beyond RAG to Agentic AI

The Industry is Quietly Moving Beyond RAG to Agentic AI

Feb 5, 2026 4 min read

Your RAG's Biggest Problem Isn't the Model, It's the Data

Your RAG's Biggest Problem Isn't the Model, It's the Data

Feb 4, 2026 4 min read

Your Next Senior Engineer is an AI with a CLI

Your Next Senior Engineer is an AI with a CLI

Feb 3, 2026 4 min read

When Autoscaling Isn't Enough: How Netflix Prioritizes and Sheds Load Before a Crash

When Autoscaling Isn't Enough: How Netflix Prioritizes and Sheds Load Before a Crash

Feb 2, 2026 4 min read

Replacing deterministic workflows with autonomous agents

Replacing deterministic workflows with autonomous agents

Feb 1, 2026 4 min read

Stop Treating Agents Like LLMs: The Case for Model Context Protocol

Stop Treating Agents Like LLMs: The Case for Model Context Protocol

Jan 31, 2026 5 min read

Even with RAG, Legal AI from Westlaw and Lexis+ Hallucinates 17% of the Time

Even with RAG, Legal AI from Westlaw and Lexis+ Hallucinates 17% of the Time

Jan 30, 2026 4 min read

Google DeepMind Claims It Has Solved AI's Amnesia

Google DeepMind Claims It Has Solved AI's Amnesia

Jan 29, 2026 3 min read

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