Architecture

Every Architecture article we've published — field notes on building and shipping production AI systems, written by the engineers who build them.

3 articles

Moses Otieno12 min read

Microservices that survive contact with production

Nine microservices best practices that separate a fleet you can hand to an auditor from a distributed monolith: contract-first APIs, one trust boundary, etags over last-write-wins, and bounds on everything.

Sep 4, 2026 Read article

George Onyango11 min read

Why 95% of agent pilots die — and the boring engineering that ships the other 5%

The failure rate is real, and it is almost never the model. Five unglamorous engineering decisions separate the agents that reach production from the ones that die in the demo.

Aug 19, 2026 Read article

Harrison Itotia10 min read

Why narrow specialists beat one 30-tool agent

The fastest way to stall an agent in the pilot is to hand one model thirty tools. Decision paralysis is an architecture problem — and a small team of narrow specialists is the fix that ships.

Aug 12, 2026 Read article