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Distributed Tracing Across Kafka and gRPC With OpenTelemetry Context Propagation

A field guide to implementing distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry across Kafka message boundaries and gRPC calls, including header propagation, instrumented producers and consumers, and the failure modes that leave orphaned spans.

September 4, 2026 · 10 min · 1950 words · martinuke0
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GitHub Zero to Hero: The Engineer’s Guide to Shipping Code Without Drama

A working engineer’s playbook for going from first commit to GitHub Actions, code review, security, and Codespaces — without the usual tutorial fluff.

September 4, 2026 · 11 min · 2322 words · martinuke0
A globe overlaid with edge node connections, symbolizing Cloudflare's global network.

Cloudflare Zero to Hero: A Working Engineer's Guide to Building on the Edge

From your first Worker to a globally distributed application: a practical walkthrough of Cloudflare’s edge stack, the patterns that work in production, and the trade-offs you should know before going all-in.

September 4, 2026 · 12 min · 2348 words · martinuke0
Two stylized neural networks exchanging structured messages instead of a single agent calling many tool APIs.

LLM-to-LLM Communication: Why Hero-to-Hero Beats Hero-to-API

The next leap in agentic AI isn’t a bigger model — it’s how models talk to each other. Here’s why LLM-to-LLM protocols like MCP and Google’s A2A are replacing the brittle hero-to-API pattern.

September 4, 2026 · 9 min · 1895 words · martinuke0
A trajectory plot of a projectile alongside equations of motion on a chalkboard.

Physics Zero to Hero: A Self-Teaching Roadmap for Working Engineers

A working engineer’s guide to teaching yourself physics from the ground up, anchored in real systems like ROS, SPICE, and game engines.

September 4, 2026 · 11 min · 2135 words · martinuke0
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