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Articles tagged with Reliability. Practical engineering insights for production systems.

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2026-06-04 4 min read

Cell-Based Architectures: Why We're Moving Away from Global Clusters in 2026

Cell-based architectures contain blast radius with self-contained slices and regional routing. Learn when to move beyond global clusters for scaling past single-region failure domains.

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2026-05-05 4 min read

Transactional AI Agents: Patterns for Database Consistency and Safe Rollbacks

AI agents that write to databases introduce new consistency risks. Learn the patterns for ACID-compliant agent actions, compensation transactions, and safe rollbacks when agent-driven operations fail.

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2026-04-25 4 min read

SLOs for Product Teams: Error Budgets That Keep AI and APIs Reliable

A practical guide to defining user-centric SLOs/SLIs and using error budgets as a decision engine for reliability—especially when AI features add new failure modes.

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2026-04-22 3 min read

Product Metrics-First AI Guardrails: Quality Control That Aligns With Users

Stop measuring AI by model vibes. Learn how to design guardrails using product metrics (acceptance rate, resolution rate, validity, safety) so quality stays aligned with users.

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2026-04-18 7 min read

Building Reliable AI Agents: Patterns for Failure Recovery, Observability, and Safe Autonomy

AI agents fail in new ways. Learn the reliability engineering patterns—idempotency, circuit breakers, human-in-the-loop, and agent observability—that make autonomous AI systems safe to run in production.

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2026-04-15 2 min read

Fractional CTO for Software Architecture Review: Deliverables That Reduce Risk

Fractional CTO for software architecture review: deliverables you should expect—bottleneck map, decision rationale, rollout plan, and measurable validation.

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2026-04-14 3 min read

HealthTech Systems Design: Secure, Reliable, Audit-Ready Architecture

HealthTech systems design guide: secure data flows, reliability under partial failure, and observability that supports auditing and incident response.

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2026-04-11 3 min read

Healthcare / HealthTech System Design: Secure Architecture That Scales

HealthTech system design guide for secure, reliable data flows. Learn how to build scalable architectures with trust, observability, and resilient reliability.

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2026-04-06 3 min read

Fix & Scale Existing Systems: Stabilize First, Then Scale

Fix & Scale Existing Systems guide: how to audit bottlenecks, remove fragile failure modes, optimize databases/caching, and implement guardrails.

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2024-04-16 3 min read

Deployment Fear is a Technical Debt: Implementing Zero-Downtime Releases for Growth Teams

Is your team afraid to deploy on Fridays? Learn the technical strategies for zero-downtime releases: Blue/Green, Canary, and Traffic Shifting on AWS and beyond.

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2024-04-16 3 min read

Building for Trust: Technical Architecture Patterns for Modern HealthTech Platforms

HealthTech systems require more than performance. Explore the design patterns for secure data boundaries, audit-ready observability, and resilient reliability in healthcare.

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