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12 articles on engineering
Why distributed transactions need sagas instead of two-phase commit, how choreography and orchestration differ through an Amazon checkout example, and an interactive simulator to watch compensation and forward retry actually play out.
Model Context Protocol went from a 100K-download experiment to industry infrastructure with cross-vendor backing. Here's what actually drove the curve.
Prompt injection attacks are up 340% year-over-year. Filtering doesn't fix it. Here's the containment architecture that actually reduces the risk.
Plain-English guide to Flink — coordinator-worker architecture, why it uses RocksDB for stateful processing, how checkpointing prevents data loss, and how Kafka Streams compares.
What vector databases are, how embeddings encode meaning, semantic vs hybrid search, index types (HNSW, IVF), and the real tradeoffs — with a working Milvus example.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics applied to software — why complexity compounds, technical debt accumulates, and what engineering teams can actually do to fight it.
How to connect browser tools to AI agents using MCP and Puppeteer — goal-driven web automation that adapts dynamically, with working code and not pseudocode.
Inside Amazon's bot detection — request pattern analysis, browser fingerprinting, behavioral signals, and the layered defences that make scraping Amazon genuinely hard.
Inside bot detection mechanics — behavioral biometrics, browser fingerprinting, TLS fingerprinting, and how platforms like PerimeterX identify and block scrapers.
