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Blogs

Explaining the systems I work with, in enough depth to actually be useful. Summaries here; the full pieces live on Medium.

agentic ai

The USB-C for AI: a complete guide to the Model Context Protocol

Understand MCP through a restaurant analogy, then build, connect and deploy your own server from scratch.

agentic ai

Wiring Slack events to an LLM through a verified webhook endpoint — and designing around Slack's three-second deadline.

infrastructure

Why self-managing Pulumi state in a versioned S3 bucket beats the default backends when control and compliance matter.

data engineering

Tracking job-run status across distributed systems by treating Kafka topics as tables instead of reaching for a database.

backend

What implementing token auth for the first time taught me — about JWT, and about learning unfamiliar things properly.