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  1. 7 min read

    Beyond the wrapper: building resilient multi-agent AI workflows in production

    What separates a demo from a system that runs unattended — a policy boundary written before anything executes, idempotent tools, bounded loops, and a failure model that assumes the model will be wrong.

    AIAgentsArchitectureBackend

  2. 6 min read

    Why we build modular monoliths first, and when we actually split

    Microservices solve an organisational problem and charge you a distributed-systems bill for it. Here is how to get the modularity without the network, and the four specific signals that mean it is genuinely time to split.

    ArchitectureBackendNode.js

  3. 5 min read

    Event-driven backends in Node: outbox, idempotency and the failures worth designing for

    A queue does not make a system resilient by itself. The transactional outbox, idempotent consumers, ordering that is only guaranteed where you need it, and a dead letter queue somebody actually looks at.

    Node.jsBackendArchitectureMessaging

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