A crash mid-turn brings the agent back with no memory that it ever spoke. That amnesia is not a bug. It is the symptom that tells retryable runtimes apart from continuable ones, and the difference is where you paid for durability.

The moment an agent charges a card, sends money, or books a seat, "just run it again" stops being free. The mechanism that prevents the duplicate has a name — idempotency — and across the integrations agents actually touch, most of it does not exist yet.

I'm a software engineer and a digital nomad. I write code from wherever I happen to be, and I mentor other engineers who want to do the same. This post is about what that mentorship actually looks like.

Migrating a website from one platform to another can be a daunting task, but with the right tools and techniques, it doesn't have to be a nightmare. In my case, I recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, and I'm happy to report that the process was relatively smooth and painless.

I am happy to announce that the page has been migrated from Wordpress to Jekyll and Github pages. Read more about the various improvements done...

We typically talk about transactions in the context of Data Manipulation Language (DML), but the same principles apply when we talk about Data Definition Language (DDL). As databases increasingly include transactional DDL, we should stop and think about the history of transactional DDL. Transactional DDL can help with application availability by allowing you perform multiple modifications in a single operation, making software upgrades simpler. You’re less likely to find yourself dealing with a partially upgraded system that requires your database administrator (DBA) to go in and fix everything by hand, losing hours of their time and slowing your software delivery down.