Most teams treat test speed as a byproduct. We treated it as an engineering system with measurable bottlenecks and explicit design constraints — and cut CI wall-clock time from ~45 minutes to ~12 minutes.
Performance
Testing
CI
Engineering
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Building MCP servers from scratch involves significant manual effort, from schema duplication to managing SSE lifecycles. We explore the 'Engineering Tax' of AI integration.
mcp
ai
llm
engineering
api-gateway
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Explore why Server-Sent Events (SSE) is the superior transport layer for production MCP servers, offering resilience, firewall compatibility, and native reconnection.
mcp
ai
llm
engineering
api-gateway
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An introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it solves the 'Context Gap' by shifting from hardcoded integrations to dynamic discovery.
mcp
ai
llm
engineering
api-gateway
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Why we chose a declarative language over arbitrary JS for our plugin system.
Engineering
Transformation
JSONata
Plugins
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A deep dive into how we built a high-performance transformation layer to bridge the gap between modern frontends and decades-old backend schemas.
Engineering
Transformation
JSONata
Migration
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