2026.08.19
Why LLM Mega-Prompts Fail at Scale: Building Deterministic State Machines with the Strategy Pattern
A TourFlow teardown: make language models expressive at the edge, while an explicit state machine owns the system's truth.
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Engineering field notes on building systems that hold their shape under uncertainty.
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2026.08.12
Streaming PostgreSQL to Parquet at Wire Speed: Zero-Copy Serialization in Rust
How postgres_to_parquet avoids row-shaped bottlenecks by treating extraction as a streaming binary pipeline.
2026.08.05
Kubernetes Edge Cases: Designing Failover Boundaries for High-Concurrency Microservices
Resilience is not a retry policy: it is an intentional set of boundaries around failure domains, queues, and state.