Why Restartability Is a Feature, Not a Hack
If your job can't be killed mid-run, it's not production-ready
Technical Systems
How technical systems fail, scale, and interact — state management, APIs, execution failures, and system design under constraint.
Why Sequence Numbers Carry Meaning
Engineering says it's just an integer. Finance says it's fraud.
Why Some Systems Survive Longer Than Their Platforms
The migration was due 'next quarter' for eight years running
Why the Past Cannot Be Reprocessed Safely
Customers already acted on the wrong numbers. Now what?
Modernizing Without Rewriting the Rules of Time
Your new system is modern. It also misses every deadline.
Why Some Systems Can't Be Tested Without Production
Your staging environment is a comforting lie
Why Most Systems Are Over-Abstracted and Under-Isolated
Seven layers deep and one failure still takes down everything
Why Timeouts Don't Cancel Work: The Resource Leak Nobody Notices
The client moved on. The server is still burning.
Your SLA Is Only as Good as Your Dependencies
Ten services at 99.9% and you're already in breach
Agent Turns as Transactions: Boundaries, Rollbacks, and Side Effects
Your agent isn't atomic and it shows.
Model Version Drift in Production Systems
Three model versions are answering your requests right now.
Modernizing Systems Where 'Eventually' Is Not Acceptable
Eventually consistent means someone's money vanished.
Microsoft Agent Framework Internals: Runtime Architecture, Execution Model, and Control Flow
The abstraction is convenient until your agent is slow.
Why Serverless Isn't Stateless
Your Lambda remembers more than you think it does
Why Your Metrics Don't Match Your Logs
One says 4 errors. The other says 15. Both are 'correct.'
Modernizing the Runtime Without Rewriting the Business Logic
The COBOL works. Stop rewriting it.