Production Systems
When Enterprise Defaults Become Enterprise Debt
A production-first field guide to the 90s-era patterns that quietly tax delivery speed, quality, and reliability - and the modern replacements that actually work.
Reliability
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Production Systems
When Management Layers Become Latency
A production-first look at how role stacks, handoffs, and proxy decision-making quietly slow delivery, degrade quality, and burn out engineers - and what to do instead.
Production Systems
Agile Isn't Dead. Agile Compliance Is.
A production-first critique of enterprise Agile theater - and a practical replacement: flow, continuous delivery, and evidence-based planning.
Production Systems
Cost Is a Reliability Problem
Budgets, quotas, and circuit breakers for LLM systems - because runaway cost is just an outage where the failure mode is billing.
Production Systems
Durable Agents with Temporal: Retries, Idempotency, and Long-Running State
Most agent demos assume perfect networks and short runs. Production agents need durable execution: retries, idempotency, replay, and human-in-the-loop - without losing state.
Production Systems
Evals for Tool-Using Agents: Regression Tests Beyond Prompts
If your eval can't fail when a tool breaks, it's not an eval. Here's how to test tool selection, arguments, side effects, and safety - without flaky 'vibe checks.'
Production Systems
Tool Discovery at Scale: Solving the Million Tool Problem
Once you have dozens (or hundreds) of tools, 'just include all schemas' stops working. Here's a production-first playbook for tool discovery, ranking, and safe invocation.
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