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Architecting Copy-on-Write B-Trees: High-Performance Snapshot Strategies for Production Databases

A practical deep dive into copy-on-write B-tree design: page versioning, root promotion, MVCC snapshots, and the GC strategies that keep production storage engines fast under write pressure.

September 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2337 words · martinuke0
Diagram of tiered memory layers feeding multiple AI agent nodes.

Architecting Autonomous Memory Systems for Distributed AI Agent Orchestration

A deep dive into the architecture of autonomous memory systems for distributed AI agents, covering tiered storage, consistency models, and real-world orchestration patterns.

September 3, 2026 · 9 min · 1917 words · martinuke0
Diagram-style illustration of a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline showing ingestion, embedding, vector search, and a language model producing an answer.

Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Deep Dive into Production Pipelines

How to design Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that hold up in production — covering indexing, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation harnesses, and the operational realities of freshness, latency, and cost.

September 3, 2026 · 13 min · 2611 words · martinuke0
Diagram of a Rust core wrapping multiple LLM provider clients behind Python bindings.

Architecting Multi-Provider AI Pipelines: A Deep Dive into Liter-LLM and Rust-Powered Polyglot Bindings

Liter-LLM re-imagines multi-provider LLM orchestration by putting a Rust runtime behind a clean Python API. This deep dive walks through its architecture, the PyO3 polyglot bindings, and the patterns for building production-grade AI pipelines.

September 3, 2026 · 10 min · 1953 words · martinuke0
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Agentic Skill Decay: Why Your AI Agents Get Worse Over Time

Agentic AI systems drift in capability long before they fail outright. This post breaks down the mechanisms, the production signals, and the engineering practices that keep agents sharp.

September 3, 2026 · 9 min · 1841 words · martinuke0
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