Shift-Left DevOps for AI Agents: Testing, Sandboxing, and Tool Mocks in CI/CD
How to catch agent bugs before they hit production by treating tools, prompts, and workflows like code.
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Consumer-Driven Contract Testing: Keeping Microservices Deployable Without Fragile End-to-End Tests
Learn how consumer-driven contract testing helps teams deploy microservices independently without brittle end-to-end tests. Practical guide with Pact examples and CI/CD integration.
Designing Reliable Sagas: A Practical Guide to Distributed Transactions in Microservices
Learn how to design and implement saga patterns for handling long-running, cross-service workflows in microservices. From orchestration vs choreography to idempotency and observability.
Cell-Based Architecture: A Practical Guide to Limiting Blast Radius at Scale
How to split a growing system into cells so a bad deploy or hotspot hurts only a small part of users instead of everyone.
Control Plane vs Data Plane: A Concrete Pattern for Modern Backend Systems
How to split your system into 'think' (control) and 'do' (data) parts so you can move faster without risking your core traffic path.
Guardrails for Agentic DevOps: Designing Safe, Observable AI Ops Agents
Show, in concrete terms, how to let AI agents touch real infrastructure without turning your cluster into a sandbox accident.
CI/CD for Agentic AI: How to Ship Tool-Using Agents Without Breaking Production
A hands-on guide to designing CI/CD pipelines that treat agentic AI (multi-step, tool-using agents) as first-class deployable units, not magical black boxes.
Structured Outputs with LLMs: How to Get Reliable JSON Every Time
Show how to turn a chatty LLM into a safe JSON-producing service that other systems can trust.
Evaluating LLM Systems in Production: From Implicit Signals to Safe Experiments
Show a practical way to move from guessing about LLM quality to measuring it using logs, labels, and simple experiments.
Designing Backpressure-First Systems: Surviving Traffic Spikes Without Falling Over
How to design web services that slow down gracefully instead of crashing when traffic or downstream latency spikes.