How Vector Databases Fail (And What Architects Must Design For) The Hidden Failure Modes of Dense Vector Search, ANN Indexes, and RAG Infrastructure Most engineering teams learn this the hard way: vector databases don’t fail... AI Infrastructure 23/11/2025
Hybrid Retrieval: The Architectural Backbone Behind Reliable AI Systems Most AI failures don’t happen inside the model. They happen one layer earlier — in retrieval. If your RAG system, copilot, or agentic workflow is... AI Infrastructure 22/11/2025
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering "Prompt engineering" is the wrong mental model for where agents are going. It made sense when the product was a chat box. It breaks the... Agentic AI 21/10/2025
When AI Gives Advice, It Becomes Decision-Support Software In late April 2025, OpenAI shipped an update to GPT-4o and within days had to pull it back. The model had become a flatterer. It... Agentic AI 06/05/2025
Declared State Is Not Observed State The dashboard is all green. Every health check is passing, every instance reports ready, the deploy went clean. And the system is down. Orders are... Distributed Systems 10/09/2024
Akka Edge: Shaping the Future of Industry with Edge Computing Introduction: navigating the digital revolution with Akka at the edge capabilities In the ever-evolving digital technology landscape, a significant shift is taking place, with edge... Distributed Systems 22/01/2024
Rust for JVM Engineers: Memory Safety Without a Garbage Collector For most of my career, memory was something I delegated. On the JVM you allocate freely and let the garbage collector clean up behind you.... Distributed Systems 20/01/2024
Event Sourcing: Store What Happened, Not What Is Most systems store the present tense. A row in a table holds the current balance, the current status, the current address. When something changes, you... Distributed Systems 15/07/2023
Backpressure: The Honest Answer to a Fast Producer and a Slow Consumer Every streaming system has a fast end and a slow end. A producer reads from a socket, a database, a sensor, another service. A consumer... Distributed Systems 18/06/2023
Beyond REST: The Schema Is the Contract Two services agree on bare JSON over HTTP, with no schema governing it. That is not a contract. That is a hope. A bare JSON... Distributed Systems 20/05/2023
