A Room Full of Locksmiths
Agent platforms fail through authorised channels, and the person who could have said so was never in the meeting. A field guide to staffing the room: one chair, one rule, one test.
Guru's Field Notes
Practitioner notes on AI agents, MCP, and building things that work.
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Every Way to Secure an AI Agent (and What Breaks When You Don't)
How to secure AI agents: 8 credential management patterns from .env files to MCP tool runtimes. Real incidents, trade-offs, code.
The AI You Dismissed Isn't the AI That's Coming
The gap between AI skeptics and believers isn't intelligence - it's exposure.
The App You Should Be Building Is You
Everyone's racing to ship. Maybe the real leverage is standing still.
Federation Over Embeddings: Let AI Agents Query Data Where It Lives
Before building vector infrastructure, consider federation: AI agents with tool access to your existing systems. That's all most teams need.
Java's Agentic Framework Boom is a Code Smell
Stop building orchestration frameworks and start building agents. The future belongs to those who master the ecosystem, not language-specific engines.
You Don't Need an Agentic Framework to Start Building Agents
Stop researching frameworks and start building, the pattern is simpler than you think.
Low latency Serving on Iceberg with Apache Pinot, in StarTree Cloud
Apache Pinot now queries Iceberg tables natively. The first system to enable low-latency serving directly on the data lake, no ETL or duplication.
Your Next Software Decision Won't Be Easy. If It Is, You're Doing It Wrong.
For architects and decision makers in an era where AI rewrites the rules overnight - your old software buying checklist is worthless
Query Streams for Apache Pinot
Lightweight tool to push real-time query results from Apache Pinot to webhooks for seamless UI integration.
The Truth About AI Agents: Are They Really That New?
AI agents build on familiar integration patterns, enhanced with smarter tools to redefine roles and reshape teams. Here's how to adapt.
Partial UPSERTs in Apache Pinot
An often underestimated feature you shouldn t overlook when choosing a real-time analytics database, for precision and simplicity.
The Coriander Effect: Elevating User Experience with Subtle Enhancements
Discover how small design details drive user activation and retention in product-led growth strategies.