Evan Tahler — software engineer, leader, writer. Head of Engineering at Arcade.dev, creator of Actionhero, Keryx, and more.
I've been building a library and a framework in parallel, and the same design constraint keeps showing up in both: every piece of software now has two audiences, humans and agents. Here's what that changes — for libraries, and for frameworks.
After 14 years of building Actionhero, I built a new framework from scratch. Keryx lets you write one Action class and deploy it across HTTP, WebSocket, CLI, background tasks, and MCP — all with the same validation and middleware.
We're building increasingly complex integrations to connect coding agents to MCP servers. But these agents already know how to use the CLI. So why are we teaching them a new interface?
Build production SQL tools for LLM agents with proper auth, least-privilege access, and injection protection. PostgreSQL examples included.
The ELT/ETL for AI
AI can see too much if you aren't careful
RAG needs a database
Saving money while moving data
Don't stop syncing just because your data is bad.
Making Database destinations faster better, and stronger
Airbyte Checkpointing: Ensuring Uninterrupted Data Syncs
Getting the Airbyte Community involved
Releasing 57 Connectors to Airbyte Cloud
Airbyte Connector Release Stages
How I solved the Architecture Notes 2022 Capture the Flag Puzzles
Things I learned at Airbyte
Use TypeScript to compute types from complex Objects
Grouparoo can speak IPv4 and IPv6 - Here's how we did it.
Get a Slack notification when your Heroku App Deploys!
Or, how to make your NPM packages 300mb smaller with this one strange trick!
Google Cloud Run is a great platform as a service, but not for background jobs
Don't use underscores in your HTTP headers... at least according to AWS and Nginx!
Grouparoo works with both SQLite and Postgres databases. This post shares what we've learned about the differences.
With open source tools, you can easily share and embed your screen recordings
Using AsyncHooks, you can collect side-effects within a database transaction and only run them if the transaction succeeds
Learn how to run a Typescript app on macOS Big Sur. Find out more.
Use Typescript to more tightly couple your React apps to your API
Asking the database to return the High Water Mark as a string prevents a number of bugs.
How does Grouparoo use Next.js to load pages and components from plugins to modify our web user interface?
Streaming event data becomes costly and less useful over time. Reverse ETL solves these problems.
Grouparoo leverages the Node.js and NPM ecosystems to manage distribution to our customers. Our open-source software is distributed via the public via NPM
Thank you to everyone who took out 2020 developer survey — Here are the results. Also, the launch of Actionhero Office Hours!
Tips and tricks to shut down your docker applications properly. No more lost data!
The Actionhero project runs a number of websites for the community — documentation, sample apps, etc. We often rely on Heroku’s free…
I recently moved the Actionhero tutorials from the Actionhero Docs site docs.actionherojs.com to the main Actionhero website…
Welcome to the fourth installment of The Illustrated Actionhero Community Q&A!
My dream of working on Actionhero full time
Welcome to the third installment of The Illustrated Actionhero Community Q&A!
Welcome to the second installment of The Illustrated Actionhero Community Q&A!
Introducing to the Actionhero Illustrated Community Q&A!
Use tools like Circle.Ci, Github, and Next.JS to host production-grade websites for free!
I recently found myself traveling regularly, and I wanted to ensure that no matter when I opened my laptop, that my connection would be…
Building an inclusive and efficient interview process for a pair-programming team
Or, how to control your Meural Canvas with the API and connect it to all the things!
Second-Order Measurements and your Product
Data Science vs Analytics are two related disciplines in most startups. I’ve also heard a number of ways to describe the distinctions…
Voom is an Airbus subsidiary working to make booking a helicopter as easy as booking a car… while we build out the infrastructure for the…
Hi Google!
The last time I used Selenium, in 2015, I hated it. It was slow, brittle, and difficult to get working. These days, it can actually be fun!