On May 11, 2026, a test-cleanup script on HoneyChat, a Telegram-native AI companion with approximately 300 daily active users, accidentally deleted 10 real OAuth users from the production PostgreSQL 1…
A new open-source Python framework, mcp-authflow, provides an OAuth 2.0 authorization server for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling token issuance and management to protect MCP tool access…
After auditing nine web development studios in Kazakhstan, the author found that eight of them relied on PHP/Laravel, WordPress, or proprietary CMS systems with restrictive licensing, which were unsui…
This article describes how to build production-grade AI agent systems using a microservices architecture, moving beyond single-process prototypes that fail at scale. It advocates for designing each "m…
The article explains that for fintech platforms with over 1 million users, notification systems must be designed as resilient distributed systems rather than simple API calls. It recommends using asyn…
According to the article, Claude Code excels at understanding and debugging complex, unfamiliar codebases by inferring context from imports and architecture, while Cursor AI is superior for rapidly ge…
The article describes how Veltrix's web-based Treasure Hunt Engine initially struggled with performance as its user base grew, despite adding more hardware and developers. The root cause was a flawed …
This article describes how a developer built a real-time precious metals price feed using Laravel 11, Laravel Reverb, and Redis to handle 30,000 concurrent users. The system uses WebSocket broadcastin…
The article describes the author's experience building "C-dis," a Redis clone in C, to gain a practical understanding of networking and systems programming. It explains the progression from a simple b…
The article describes how the author's team initially chose Apache Kafka for their treasure hunt game's event streaming system, but encountered issues with high latency (5-second lag) and crashes due …
The article introduces AI DB Investigator, a tool designed to help AI systems analyze database problems through a structured, step-by-step investigation process rather than relying on random answer ge…
The article describes a team's failed attempt to scale a treasure hunt engine by adding more MySQL instances behind a load balancer within a single AWS availability zone, which led to disk I/O and CPU…
Company's failed attempt to scale a new treasure hunt feature by prematurely adding caching layers (Redis, memcached), which caused system crashes due to memory overload and redundant updates. The tea…
Resilix is an enterprise-grade distributed token-bucket rate limiter and request deduplicator middleware designed for modern microservices, offering O(1) time complexity and atomic Redis Lua scripting…
The article criticizes the practice of pasting lengthy, AI-generated responses into conversations, calling such behavior a "slop grenade." It argues that this destroys natural communication by overwhe…
The article criticizes the practice of pasting lengthy, AI-generated responses into conversations where a brief human reply is expected, labeling such outputs as "slop grenades." It argues that this b…
Orchkit, a composable Go orchestration tool designed to avoid platform lock-in by allowing each of its 63 nodes to function in four different ways. It features a visual drag-and-drop UI and includes b…
"Context Tax," a productivity cost incurred when senior engineers must repeatedly re-explain their project's architectural conventions to AI coding tools like Cursor, which lack persistent memory betw…
Challenges of scaling robotic swarms from 10 to over 100 AI agents across multiple warehouse sites, where the primary bottleneck shifted from model accuracy to the messaging and orchestration stack. T…
Technical architecture of WorCo's AI booking agent for vehicle rentals, which uses a separate Django REST API layer with MCP-compatible endpoints and Redis-backed "dialog passports" to maintain conver…