Writing

Engineering·November 9, 2026·6 min read

Building an agent that talks is the easy demo. The harder work is authenticated tools, retries, evaluation, telemetry, CRM synchronization and the people who have to operate it.

Engineering·November 7, 2026·3 min read

Retry logic looks harmless in isolation. When a gateway, application service and SDK each apply their own retry policy, a single failed operation can multiply into a dependency outage. That interaction is the starting point for my retry-storm analysis.

Engineering·November 6, 2026·3 min read

I scheduled 100 calls against one in-process idempotency key. The side-effect callback ran once; a real crash or a second worker is still untested.

Engineering·November 6, 2026·4 min read

A timeout does not undo a committed write. Model retries, duplicate operations and correctly scoped idempotency keys.