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17 postsLLM agents are breaking 20-year-old web architecture
Stateful LLM agents are exposing cracks in the stateless-server-plus-database web architecture. The missing piece: a routing primitive that can address running processes directly.
system-designllmai-agentsdistributed-systemsChorus: A Fast Single-Writer WAL Built on Google Cloud Storage
Chorus is a single-writer WAL built directly on Google Cloud Storage, delivering regional durability at single-zone latency without Kafka or etcd.
distributed-systemsgoogle-cloudwrite-ahead-logrustChasing True Zero-Downtime Redis Sentinel Failover on Kubernetes
An engineer's attempt to achieve near zero-downtime Redis Sentinel failover on EKS: custom preStop hooks, ioredis buffering risks, and the debate over HA at scale.
rediskubernetesnode.jshigh-availabilityIs True Database Elasticity Finally Real?
A look at how fully decoupled compute and storage layers finally deliver genuine pay-as-you-go database elasticity, and what it means for engineering teams.
databasescloud-architectureserverlessscalabilityBuilding Fault-Tolerant AI Agent Workflows with Temporal and CrewAI
How enterprise AI agent systems can combine Temporal's durable orchestration with CrewAI's stateless reasoning agents to survive crashes, retry safely, and gate on human approval.
ai-agentstemporalcrewaillmWhy LLM Apps Must Be Engineered as Distributed Systems
A production AI app broke under load—not because of the model, but missing queues, caching, retries and observability. Backend engineering is the real differentiator.
ai-engineeringdistributed-systemsllmbackendA Periodic Table of System Design: 40+ Shared Principles
Georgia Tech researcher Joy Arulraj distills over 100 influential papers into a shared taxonomy of 40+ system design principles spanning databases, OS, and distributed systems.
systems designcomputer-sciencedistributed-systemsdatabases