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20 dispatches · latest August 21, 2026

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August 2026

21 Spend Ceilings for Public Endpoints 12 min 14 Observability for Tool-Using AI Agents 12 min 11 Replayable Test Harnesses for AI Agents 10 min

July 2026

04 Taming Tail Latency with Hedged Requests 10 min 01 Resource Budgets for Tool-Using AI Agents 13 min

June 2026

19 Compensating Actions for Tool-Using AI Agents 11 min 13 Agent Command Ledgers for Reliable AI Workflows 10 min 12 Sandboxing Tool-Using AI Agents 10 min 11 Designing Durable Agentic Workflows 9 min 06 Designing Circuit Breakers for Distributed Services 10 min 06 Designing Bulkheads for Resilient Services 10 min 05 Designing Load Shedding and Backpressure for APIs 9 min 04 Designing Retry Strategies with Backoff and Jitter 9 min 03 Graceful Shutdown for Node.js Services 9 min 02 Optimistic Concurrency Control for APIs and Databases 9 min 01 Practical API Rate Limiting with Token Buckets 9 min

May 2026

31 Zero-Downtime Database Migrations with Expand and Contract 8 min 28 Implementing the Transactional Outbox Pattern for Reliable Events 7 min 26 Designing Cursor Pagination APIs That Stay Correct Under Load 6 min 26 Implementing Idempotency Keys in APIs to Prevent Duplicate Actions 6 min