Archive / Topic
#architecture
13 posts, newest first
Why AI agents fail in production: state drift, not prompt drift
A practical state-convergence playbook for project-scoped agent systems
Security friction needs a job
Security improvements that stick are the ones that reduce cognitive load for normal users while narrowing attack surface
MCP tools need API-grade contracts
Why MCP servers should be thin, reliable protocol adapters - not application logic hosts
SDKs earn trust by keeping semantics aligned
SDK quality is contract fidelity plus ergonomic defaults, not HTTP calls with types
Contract drift is an API bug
Why contract discipline is the fastest path to scalable integrations and lower support overhead
Duplicate storage quietly becomes infrastructure debt
Content-addressable deduplication and integrity checks for API platforms using object storage
Start rate limits where the system can explain them
Build simple, visible, enforceable limits before you build complex ones
Background jobs need a cleanup contract
Why lifecycle integrity in stateful systems depends on explicit, observable maintenance jobs
Retrieval output still needs a context contract
Search output is not prompt-ready context. Assembly is a first-class subsystem.
Retrieval works when vector search has backup
Why reliable retrieval needs layered fallback chains, not vector-only optimism
Schema discipline decides retrieval reliability
Schema quality determines long-term correctness more than any algorithm choice
A leaked API key should fail small
A production-grade model for key format, storage, scope, and rotation
Authorization is where multitenant systems earn trust
Why multi-tenant systems fail at authorization boundaries, and how to fix it
Often tagged alongside architecture