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MCP Is the USB-C of AI — Here's What That Actually Means for Your Architecture

A senior engineer's guide to production MCP: JSON-RPC 2.0 transport, OAuth 2.1 auth, stateless horizontal scaling, and where the protocol genuinely breaks.

September 21, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 2,265 Views · 2 Likes

When Mobile Connections Break: Recovering Long-Running iOS Workflows With LangGraph and Event-Driven Backends

LangGraph checkpoints and event-driven backends let iOS apps resume long-running workflows after network drops without duplicate work.

September 21, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 1,910 Views · 3 Likes

Edge AI: Why Inference Is Moving Away From the Cloud

Edge inference thrives on-device for real-time, private AI. Advances in hardware and compression cut latency and costs, pushing AI away from the cloud.

September 21, 2026

by Uthej Mopathi

CORE

· 2,691 Views · 3 Likes

MCP vs REST/HTTP API vs Kafka: The Architect's Guide to Agentic AI Integration

MCP, Kafka, and REST APIs are not the same: this comparison maps each to the right layer of your agentic AI architecture.

September 18, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 4,208 Views · 1 Like

Designing Human-in-the-Loop Approval Gates for Enterprise AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents should automate low-risk tasks, require approval for sensitive actions, and maintain strict access, logs, and review.

September 18, 2026

by Praveen VR

· 3,971 Views · 3 Likes

When Your Benchmark Leaks the Answer

Bad synthetic data and flawed rules broke model evaluations, but high overall scores hid it. Test by category using realistic, production-style data.

September 18, 2026

by Praveen Kumar Myakala

· 2,417 Views · 1 Like

Exploring the DBMS_DEVELOPER Package: JSON Metadata for Oracle Objects

Learn how Oracle Database 23ai’s DBMS_DEVELOPER package uses JSON metadata and ETags to simplify database schema documentation, migration, and change tracking.

September 18, 2026

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,421 Views · 1 Like

Multi-Agent Systems: Architecture Patterns for Developers

Single agents break when tasks branch. Multi-agent systems split the work across coordinated agents. Learn the five core architecture patterns and when to use each.

September 18, 2026

by Matthew Truong

· 3,486 Views · 2 Likes

RAG, Vector Databases, and MCP: Wiring Them Together for Production

This article offers a practical walkthrough for engineers moving past the "RAG demo" stage into systems that hold up in production.

September 18, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 3,488 Views · 1 Like

Stop Blaming Executor Memory: The Real Reasons Your Spark Jobs Are Slow

This article explains five common causes of slow Spark jobs and practical fixes for joins, stragglers, decryption chains, shuffle partitions, and incremental processing.

September 18, 2026

by Swaminathan Sethuraman

· 2,465 Views · 3 Likes

How to Test Web Accessibility Using Playwright and Axe-Core

Learn how to set up automated accessibility testing using Playwright and Axe-Core. We'll build a reusable fixture, run targeted WCAG scans.

September 18, 2026

by Sidharth Shukla

· 2,316 Views · 1 Like

Common Pitfalls in RAG Applications: What to Avoid When Using Vector Search and Embeddings

RAG is easy to launch and hard to keep reliable. Here are the most common failure modes, their causes, and the Databricks-specific fixes.

September 17, 2026

by Seshendranath Balla Venkata

· 2,861 Views · 1 Like

Federated MCP Control Plane: Policy-Aware Access to Multi-Backend Tool Servers

A federated gateway replaces scattered local MCP credentials with brokered, short-lived, least-privilege tokens plus the guardrails needed to run it safely.

September 17, 2026

by Harish Gaggar

· 3,182 Views · 3 Likes

The New API Contract Is Probabilistic: Building Reliable Systems Around Unreliable Model Outputs

AI model outputs are unpredictable, so developers must use validation, testing, monitoring, and safe fallbacks to build reliable systems around them.

September 17, 2026

by Micheal Chukwube

· 2,519 Views · 1 Like

A Senior Engineer’s Guide to Foundry IQ, MCP, and the OpenAI Agents SDK

This hands-on guide shows senior engineers how to combine Microsoft Foundry, Foundry IQ, MCP, and the OpenAI Agents SDK into a flexible agent architecture.

September 17, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,638 Views · 3 Likes

Understand the Sidecar Pattern by Deploying n8n to AWS Fargate

Learn how to deploy n8n Task Runners as AWS Fargate sidecars for isolated code execution, independent resources, and scalable workflow automation.

September 17, 2026

by Iyanuoluwa Ajao

· 3,250 Views · 2 Likes

Stop Overfeeding Your AI Agent's Context Window

More context doesn't fix a confused AI agent. Skills, MCP, RAG, and memory each solve one specific problem: procedure, connectivity, documented knowledge & experience.

September 17, 2026

by Faisal Feroz

· 4,712 Views · 3 Likes

Context Engineering: The Missing Piece in Agentic Systems

Let's understand what context engineering is, its importance in agentic systems and how to use it to build efficient AI systems.

September 17, 2026

by Pavan Belagatti

CORE

· 3,918 Views · 1 Like

AI Architectures That Drive Real Business ROI

Practical guide to 5 AI architectures that drive business ROI: decision intelligence, personalization, single-agent, multi-agent, and autonomous systems.

September 17, 2026

by Ram Ghadiyaram

CORE

· 3,640 Views · 1 Like

The Trinity of Modern Data Architecture: Process Intelligence, Event-Driven Integration, and Trusted Agentic AI

Process intelligence, event-driven integration, and trusted agentic AI must be designed as one converged architecture for real business value.

September 16, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 3,087 Views · 1 Like

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