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How AssemblyAI Collapsed Four Vendors Into A single API Key
From recorded phone call to redacted, summarized record, behind one key. The architecture deletes three vendor seams.
Aug 28
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GitHub's 8-Hour Outage Was Mostly Retries
One sidecar hit its ceiling. The clients did the other seven hours.
Aug 19
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Linear Skipped the Agent Frameworks and Wrote Their Own Harness
Shallow tools, just-in-time skills, and a defensible case for a custom harness
Aug 10
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How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
And why "MCP vs A2A" is a fight that doesn't exist
Aug 6
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July 2026
Engineers Are Still Saying No For A Reason That Stopped Being True
Saying no used to be free. GitHub is noticing that for one class of change, the debate now costs more than just building the thing.
Jul 20
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Your Homegrown System Was Right in 2018. It's a Liability Now.
Millions of batch jobs, migrated in 4 weeks, and nobody noticed
Jul 13
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OpenAI's bug that hid inside a 100-picosecond window
How OpenAI stopped debugging like a doctor and started thinking like an epidemiologist and caught a race condition in the process.
Jul 6
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June 2026
The Bug That Hid From Every Tool Cloudflare Had
Cloudflare found a race condition buried in one of Rust's most-deployed libraries, and the fix was four lines
Jun 30
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The No-Nonsense Engineer’s Guide to Claude Skills
Every engineer on your team is using AI.
Jun 24
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Netflix Engineers Never Ask "What Depends on This?" Anymore
How Netflix Killed the Worst Part of Being On-Call
Jun 23
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How Discord Automates ScyllaDB Clusters at Scale
The framework that turned a 36-hour database operation into two hours of mostly waiting
Jun 15
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MongoDB Taught Its Database to See the Future
How Atlas built a predictive auto-scaler that scales before your servers break a sweat
Jun 1
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