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MNMarc Newsteadinicentric-ai-and-automation.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 4 min readWhy Your SaaS API Isn't Ready for AI Agents (And How to Fix It)Why Your SaaS API Isn't Ready for AI Agents (And How to Fix It) If you're building SaaS in 2024 and your API strategy stops at "we have a REST endpoint for premium customers," you're already behind. A00
SSSarmeet Singhinblueprintsofscale.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 48 min readDo No Harm Twice: Idempotency, Explained Like You're NewIn the replication post (#5), Section 4 left a grenade on the table: the primary dies mid-write, the client never got its "done," and now someone has to decide whether to retry the write. If the write00
VKVasyl Kyryliukinvat-engine.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 12 min readVAT-Inclusive vs VAT-Exclusive Pricing: The Math Developers Get WrongVAT calculation often looks like simple percentage arithmetic: Take the price, multiply it by the VAT rate, and you are done. That only works when you know exactly what the input price represents. A00
MMediaCreatorinmediacreator.hashnode.dev·Sep 20 · 6 min readArchitecting Human-in-the-Loop Pipelines for Automated Social Media DistributionScaling social media output often begins with a simple script that pushes content to an API. However, as the volume of content increases, the risk of non-deterministic AI outputs or accidental misfire00
ABAbhishek Banerjeeindeeper-in-tech.hashnode.dev·Sep 19 · 6 min readgRPC vs. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent Events (SSE): Selecting the Right Streaming Protocol for Real-Time ServicesStop defaulting to WebSockets for every real-time feature. Here is a deep-dive comparison of HTTP/2 multiplexing, bi-directional streams, framing overhead, and network architecture in 2026. The Real-T00
LDLakshay Dhoundiyalinlakshaydhoundiyal.hashnode.dev·Sep 12 · 10 min readThe Hidden Distributed System Behind YouTube’s “Continue Watching” Button 🎬⚙️Imagine this. You’re watching a YouTube video about system design. The explanation is getting interesting. The speaker has just started discussing database sharding. You pause the video at 08:37. Life20
MNMarc Newsteadinicentric-ai-and-automation.hashnode.dev·Sep 7 · 4 min readBuilding for Agentic Commerce: What Engineers Need to Know About AI Buyer InterfacesBuilding for Agentic Commerce: What Engineers Need to Know About AI Buyer Interfaces If you're building ecommerce systems today, you're probably still optimising for human eyeballs: page load times, i00
MNMarc Newsteadinicentric-ai-and-automation.hashnode.dev·Sep 7 · 5 min readBuilding for the Next Buyer: What Agentic Commerce Means for Your API SurfaceThe Consumer You Didn't Design For We've spent a decade refining ecommerce UX: optimising checkout flows, A/B testing button colours, obsessing over Core Web Vitals. But there's a new category of cons00
SMSubramanya M Raoinsubramanyarao.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 16 min readI Compared REST and RPC—Then Changed My Go API DesignPart 2 of "What I Learned From an Action-Based Go API Layout". Same core idea — one unit of work per endpoint — but a video from Mehul Mohan showed me a version of it with three opinions I don't share00