AI & Agents
MCP Goes Stateless: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Changes
Session IDs and the initialize handshake are gone. Any request can land on any instance, which removes sticky routing and changes how you deploy an MCP server.
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Cloud & DevOps
Serverless Computing: What You Trade Away
Serverless removes the server and adds a different set of problems: cold starts, execution limits, local development and a bill that scales with traffic. When that trade is worth making.
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AI & Agents
Generative AI, RAG and Agentic Frameworks
Three overlapping terms that describe three different amounts of risk. What separates a prompt from a retrieval system from an agent, and which one your problem actually needs.
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Frontend
React State: Choosing Where Data Should Live
Most React state problems are placement problems. The five places state can live, how to tell which one you need, and why server data does not belong in a global store.
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E-Commerce
E-Commerce: The Stages of a Solution
Most e-commerce projects fail at a stage transition, not at launch. The four stages a commerce system passes through, and the signals that tell you it is time to move.
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Data & Analytics
Analytics: Planning the Right Database
Row store or column store, one database or two, warehouse or lakehouse. How to choose an analytics database from the questions your business actually asks.
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Software Architecture
Caching Layers: Where to Put Them and What They Cost
Every cache is a bet that stale data is cheaper than a slow response. A tour of the seven layers where you can cache, and the invalidation bill each one sends you.
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Software Architecture
Realtime Applications: What They Actually Require
Realtime is not a feature you add. It changes your connection model, your state model, your deployment and your failure modes. What to plan for before you promise it.
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Security
Web Security: The Defences That Earn Their Keep
Most breaches are not clever. They are a missing check on a route nobody remembered. A practical tour of the OWASP risks that actually reach production, and the layered defences that stop them.
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Software Architecture
Modern Web Architectures: Part 2
SPAs, PWAs and API-first delivery. The second half of our tour through the choices that shape how a modern web product is built and shipped.
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Software Architecture
Modern Web Architectures: Part 1
Monoliths, microservices and serverless. What each one buys you, what it costs, and how to pick without cargo-culting whatever the last conference talk recommended.
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