A curated path through 30 essential posts — focused on agentic software development, the protocols reshaping how agents work, and what it takes to ship AI in production. Skip the noise, read what matters.

A structured path through 30 posts — from hiring your first engineer to running a P&L. Built for new EMs, senior ICs considering management, and experienced leaders filling gaps.

A structured path through 20 posts — from algorithmic building blocks through distributed systems to production reliability. Built for backend engineers, platform engineers, and anyone preparing for system design interviews.

The Core Decision Framework The “right” database depends on three dimensions: Data shape — structured (schema-enforced) vs flexible (schema-less) Access pattern — how data is read/written (r...

Technical specification for a centralized MCP Gateway with detailed functional and non-functional requirements, security considerations, and stakeholder sign-off matrix.

Centralized, secure entry point for AI agents to invoke MCP tools. Routes all MCP traffic through one gateway to enforce consistent authN/authZ, audit logging, and observability.

Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP) is an open framework that enables merchants to distinguish legitimate AI shopping agents from bots, verify agent authorization to transact on behalf of a user, and process payments securely using delegated credentials.

AP2 is Google's open protocol for secure, verifiable payment authorization between AI agents, merchants, and payment providers. It introduces cryptographically-signed Mandates as tamper-proof proof of user intent.

UCP is Google's open standard for agentic commerce, covering the full lifecycle from product discovery and comparison through checkout and post-purchase. Backed by a coalition of 20+ partners including Shopify, Walmart, Target, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe.

ACP is an open standard co-developed by OpenAI and Stripe that defines how AI agents, buyers, and merchants interact to complete purchases programmatically. It powers ChatGPT's Instant Checkout and is the first production-scale agent commerce protocol.