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Erdem Arslan

Software Engineering, System Architectures, Technology Philosophy, Cybersecurity and Large Language Models.

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Building a Deterministic Security Buffer for Modern APIs

Most security tooling for APIs forces teams into a bad choice. Either you put a decision-heavy control directly in the runtime path and accept the risk that security logic becomes an availability prob

Building Tripwired: Engineering a Deterministic Kill-Switch for Autonomous Agents

Autonomous agents rarely fail because of a single bad decision. They fail because they continue acting after they should have stopped. Whether it's an LLM stuck in an infinite loop, a runaway script b

CSRF is Dead, Long Live Request Intent: The Anatomy of a Cryptographic Primitive

The "Synchronizer Token Pattern"—the standard approach to CSRF protection for the last decade—is becoming an architectural liability. In an era of serverless runtimes, edge computing, and distributed systems, relying on a stateful session store (like...

Building Trauma-Aware Databases: How MindFry Remembers Its Crashes

Introduction Traditional databases treat crashes as binary events: either you recovered successfully, or you didn't. But what if your database could remember how it failed and adapt accordingly? In MindFry v1.8.0, we implemented a crash recovery syst...

Cluster127: Designing a Nervous System for the Agentic Web

The modern web is optimized for human consumption. It is visual, stateless, and safe. But as we move toward an era of autonomous agents and synthetic intelligence, the current infrastructure—REST APIs, JSON payloads, and traditional databases—feels i...

MindFry: The Database That Thinks

The Thesis For 50 years, databases have operated on a single assumption: data is inert. You store it, you retrieve it, it remains unchanged. MindFry rejects this assumption. MindFry treats data as living neural tissue — subject to decay, association,...

Cluster 127: Chronicles of a Dreamer and a System Building "Consciousness"

Part 1: Darkness and the Beginning (The Call to Adventure) I need to start by being brutally honest. Not long ago, just a few months back, I was someone who had truly lost hope, contemplating working as a courier just to survive. In the software worl...

Building mindfry: A Cognitive Memory Layer for AI Agents

TL;DR I built mindfry — a cognitive memory layer for AI agents inspired by how human consciousness works. Memories decay over time, automatically associate with each other, and transition between conscious/subconscious states. Built for LLM agents, g...

Stop Fighting Your Circuit Breaker: A Physics-Based Approach to Node.js Reliability

The 3am Pager Reality Picture this: Black Friday, 2am. Your circuit breaker starts flapping between OPEN and CLOSED like a broken light switch. Traffic is oscillating, half your users are getting 503s, and your Slack is on fire. Been there? Most of u...