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Insights on event-driven architecture, modern development practices, and emerging technologies — real-world implementations and hard-won lessons.

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Standards Are Not Architecture: Why A2A and MCP Won't Save Your Agents at 3am
AI/ML Sep 12, 2026 · Latest

Standards Are Not Architecture: Why A2A and MCP Won't Save Your Agents at 3am

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The Ghost of MiFID II: Why Auditability is the AI Act's True North for Regulated Industries
FinTech
Sep 12, 2026

The Ghost of MiFID II: Why Auditability is the AI Act's True North for Regulated Industries

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The Intern's Alerting Tool Outlasted the Platform It Monitored
Leadership
Aug 28, 2026

The Intern's Alerting Tool Outlasted the Platform It Monitored

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The Migration Tax Nobody Budgets For: Why Parallel Running Is Where Enterprise Moves Actually Fail
Engineering
Aug 21, 2026

The Migration Tax Nobody Budgets For: Why Parallel Running Is Where Enterprise Moves Actually Fail

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The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agents Will Fail Without Topic Hierarchies
AI/ML
Aug 14, 2026

The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agents Will Fail Without Topic Hierarchies

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The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agents Can't Find Each Other
AI/ML
Aug 7, 2026

The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agents Can't Find Each Other

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The Architecture Astronaut Trap: Why Your AI Agent Demo Will Fail in Production
AI/ML
Jul 31, 2026

The Architecture Astronaut Trap: Why Your AI Agent Demo Will Fail in Production

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The Technical Hire That Changed How I Build Teams
Leadership
Jul 24, 2026

The Technical Hire That Changed How I Build Teams

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The Migration Tax: Why Parallel Running Is Where Enterprise Cutovers Actually Fail
Engineering
Jul 17, 2026

The Migration Tax: Why Parallel Running Is Where Enterprise Cutovers Actually Fail

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The Six Months Before the Cutover Will Kill You
Engineering
Jul 10, 2026

The Six Months Before the Cutover Will Kill You

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The Technical Interview Question I Stopped Asking (And The One That Replaced It)
Leadership
Jul 3, 2026

The Technical Interview Question I Stopped Asking (And The One That Replaced It)

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The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agent Demo Will Fail in Production
AI/ML
Jun 26, 2026

The Architecture Tax Nobody Talks About: Why Your AI Agent Demo Will Fail in Production

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The Technical Decision That Got Me Yelled At: Why Changing Languages Mid-Project Was Still Right
Leadership
Jun 19, 2026

The Technical Decision That Got Me Yelled At: Why Changing Languages Mid-Project Was Still Right

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The Architecture Tax Nobody Budgets For: Why Your AI Agent Demo Won't Survive Production
AI/ML
Jun 12, 2026

The Architecture Tax Nobody Budgets For: Why Your AI Agent Demo Won't Survive Production

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The Architecture Astronaut Trap: Why Your AI Agent Demo Works But Your AI Agent System Won't
AI/ML
Jun 5, 2026

The Architecture Astronaut Trap: Why Your AI Agent Demo Works But Your AI Agent System Won't

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The Intern Code That Outlived the Architecture
Leadership
May 29, 2026

The Intern Code That Outlived the Architecture

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The Architecture Astronaut Detector: How I Screen Pre-Sales Engineers for Signal Over Noise
Leadership
May 15, 2026

The Architecture Astronaut Detector: How I Screen Pre-Sales Engineers for Signal Over Noise

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The Architecture Tax: Why Your AI Agent Demo Works But Your AI Agent System Won't
AI/ML
Apr 24, 2026

The Architecture Tax: Why Your AI Agent Demo Works But Your AI Agent System Won't

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The Migration Tax: Why Parallel Running Will Break You Before the Cutover Does
Engineering
Apr 17, 2026

The Migration Tax: Why Parallel Running Will Break You Before the Cutover Does

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Autonomous AI Agents Are Blind Without an Event Mesh
AI/ML
Apr 3, 2026

Autonomous AI Agents Are Blind Without an Event Mesh

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Agentic AI's Unspoken Prerequisite: The Event Mesh
AI/ML
Mar 27, 2026

Agentic AI's Unspoken Prerequisite: The Event Mesh

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Agentic AI is Dead Without an Event-Driven Nervous System
EDA
Mar 20, 2026

Agentic AI is Dead Without an Event-Driven Nervous System

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AI Coding Isn't a Shortcut, It's My VP Superpower for Staying Hands-On
AI/ML
Mar 13, 2026

AI Coding Isn't a Shortcut, It's My VP Superpower for Staying Hands-On

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From Event Streams to Agent Mesh: Orchestrating AI with Event-Driven Architecture
Agentic AI
Mar 6, 2026

From Event Streams to Agent Mesh: Orchestrating AI with Event-Driven Architecture

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Agentic AI and the Event Mesh: Orchestrating the Autonomous Enterprise
Agentic AI
Feb 27, 2026

Agentic AI and the Event Mesh: Orchestrating the Autonomous Enterprise

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Orchestrating Intelligence: How Event-Driven Architecture Powers the Agentic AI Revolution
Agentic AI
Feb 20, 2026

Orchestrating Intelligence: How Event-Driven Architecture Powers the Agentic AI Revolution

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Event Mesh vs. Kafka: A Pragmatist's View from the FinTech Trenches
EDA
Feb 13, 2026

Event Mesh vs. Kafka: A Pragmatist's View from the FinTech Trenches

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The Hands-On Imperative: Why Technical Leaders Must Still Code to Drive Innovation, from Fintech to AI
Leadership
Feb 6, 2026

The Hands-On Imperative: Why Technical Leaders Must Still Code to Drive Innovation, from Fintech to AI

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Beyond the Boardroom: My Hands-On Approach to Architecting Next-Gen Event-Driven AI
AI & EDA
Jan 30, 2026

Beyond the Boardroom: My Hands-On Approach to Architecting Next-Gen Event-Driven AI

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Escaping the 'Request-Reply' Trap: Why Real-Time Finance Needs Event-Driven Architecture
FinTech Arch
Jan 23, 2026

Escaping the 'Request-Reply' Trap: Why Real-Time Finance Needs Event-Driven Architecture

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Surviving the 'Big Rewrite': Strategic Insights from Migrating TIBCO to Solace at a Global Bank
Messaging
Jan 16, 2026

Surviving the 'Big Rewrite': Strategic Insights from Migrating TIBCO to Solace at a Global Bank

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Beyond the Log: Why Solace PubSub Excels for Mission-Critical Event Architectures
Messaging
Jan 9, 2026

Beyond the Log: Why Solace PubSub Excels for Mission-Critical Event Architectures

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The Event-Driven Nervous System: Why Agentic AI Needs EDA to Thrive
AI
Jan 6, 2026

The Event-Driven Nervous System: Why Agentic AI Needs EDA to Thrive

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How I Scaled a Systems Engineering Team 3x Without Breaking Culture
Other
Jan 2, 2026

How I Scaled a Systems Engineering Team 3x Without Breaking Culture

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Why Broker-Based Messaging Solutions Outperform Brokerless Solutions in Capital Markets
Architecture
Sep 26, 2025

Why Broker-Based Messaging Solutions Outperform Brokerless Solutions in Capital Markets

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Event Driven 3d JavaScript
Dev
Jan 29, 2024

Event Driven 3d JavaScript

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GraphQL Subscriptions With Solace PubSub+
Dev
Aug 18, 2023

GraphQL Subscriptions With Solace PubSub+

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Migrating from Wordpress to a Svelte powered Markdown blog
Dev
Jun 14, 2023

Migrating from Wordpress to a Svelte powered Markdown blog

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DAPR with Solace PubSub+
Dev
Dec 29, 2022

DAPR with Solace PubSub+

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Event Driven Zinc Search Logging
Dev
Aug 23, 2022

Event Driven Zinc Search Logging

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The importance of message settlement for Event Driven Architectures
Dev
Aug 4, 2022

The importance of message settlement for Event Driven Architectures

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Build a Proximity Detection System with a Raspberry Pi, Solace PubSub+, and JavaScript
Dev
Mar 31, 2022

Build a Proximity Detection System with a Raspberry Pi, Solace PubSub+, and JavaScript

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Why the Pyth Network needs an Event Mesh
Crypto
Mar 24, 2022

Why the Pyth Network needs an Event Mesh

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Event Driven Machine Learning
Dev
Feb 28, 2022

Event Driven Machine Learning

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Solace PubSub+ Queue Redelivery Delayer
Dev
Feb 1, 2022

Solace PubSub+ Queue Redelivery Delayer

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Event Driven Elixir
Dev
Jan 17, 2022

Event Driven Elixir

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Rainbow Wallet - Bringing Ethereum to the masses
Crypto, Personal
Jan 12, 2022

Rainbow Wallet - Bringing Ethereum to the masses

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A scalable WebSocket fanout solution for your High Performance Kafka deployment
Dev
Feb 21, 2021

A scalable WebSocket fanout solution for your High Performance Kafka deployment

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Using GraphQL to query the state of your event mesh
Dev
Feb 21, 2021

Using GraphQL to query the state of your event mesh

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How to Use Rust, WebAssembly, JavaScript, and PubSub+ to Run Native Apps in Your Browser
Dev
Oct 15, 2020

How to Use Rust, WebAssembly, JavaScript, and PubSub+ to Run Native Apps in Your Browser

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Linking Vuex State Machines Across Your Vue Client Applications with Solace PubSub+
Dev
Apr 30, 2020

Linking Vuex State Machines Across Your Vue Client Applications with Solace PubSub+

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Creating an OpenFin Event Mesh Across the Hybrid Cloud
Dev
May 2, 2019

Creating an OpenFin Event Mesh Across the Hybrid Cloud

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Handling OpenFin Inbound Events from the Hybrid Cloud
Dev
May 2, 2019

Handling OpenFin Inbound Events from the Hybrid Cloud

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OpenFin Apps Need More Than Just REST
Dev
May 2, 2019

OpenFin Apps Need More Than Just REST

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