It is a quiet Tuesday afternoon until the latency spikes begin. In the world of modern software engineering, we have moved far beyond the era of simple server monitoring. We no longer just “build and hope.” Instead, we strive for Continuous Reliability, a state where our systems are designed to be interrogated, understood, and improved […]
It is a quiet Tuesday afternoon until the latency spikes begin. In the world of modern software engineering, we have moved far beyond the era of simple server monitoring. We no longer just “build and hope.” Instead, we strive for Continuous Reliability, a state where our systems are designed to be interrogated, understood, and improved […]
Introduction: The Turning Point from Dispersed Traffic to Intelligent Governance Since early 2025, within a leading global appliance giant, multiple business lines have introduced numerous large language models (LLMs). The R&D department needed coding assistants to improve efficiency, the marketing team focused on content generation, and the smart product team aimed to integrate conversational capabilities […]
Why Prompt Injection Is the New Surface Attack and So Difficult by Design In December 2023, a Chevrolet dealership made headlines when users coaxed its ChatGPT-powered chatbot into “agreeing” to sell cars for $1. Just months earlier, in February, Microsoft’s Bing had exposed its hidden “Sydney” persona, venting irritation at users and sparking widespread alarm […]
Software engineering is changing quickly. Just as the internet and cloud computing changed how we build and launch apps, artificial intelligence (AI) is now speeding up the move from a minimum viable product (MVP) to large-scale systems. Tasks that used to take days, such as hackathons, now take only hours. Companies use AI agents for […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are systems that understand their environment, reason, plan, and take actions using large language models (LLMs) with minimal human interaction. Today, we have agents that read your calendar, inbox, and event write and execute code. As part of this tutorial, we will explore the different constructs that make up an AI […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are systems that understand their environment, reason, plan, and take actions using large language models (LLMs) with minimal human interaction. Today, we have agents that read your calendar, inbox, and event write and execute code. As part of this tutorial, we will explore the different constructs that make up an AI […]
After years of building data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform, I’ve learned fault tolerance isn’t optional; it’s essential from day one. What sets a production-ready pipeline apart isn’t the architecture diagram but how it handles out-of-order changes, backlog, crashes, and quota limits. This article distills lessons from real-world challenges: debugging issues at 3 a.m., handling […]
A previous article presented a performance comparison between PostgreSQL Full-Text Search (FTS) and plain pattern matching, especially in cases where a given piece of text is searched across multiple attributes of multiple entities. In brief, the conclusion was that FTS is significantly faster, while pattern matching offers greater flexibility, a wider range of applicability, and […]
The security engineer’s face went pale when she pulled up the access logs. Her team had deployed a fraud detection model to production three weeks earlier — standard stuff, containerized inference running on Kubernetes. Except someone had been quietly exfiltrating the model weights for the past eleven days through an API endpoint they’d forgotten to […]
