Tag: architecture

All the articles with the tag "architecture".

• Manager / Coordinator / Agent: A Multi-Agent Topology That Survives Real Workloads

  Published:Apr 22, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

  Most multi-agent demos collapse on contact with non-trivial tasks. The Manager / Coordinator / Agent topology is what I keep reaching for when I want a multi-agent system that does not deadlock, drift, or hallucinate its way into nonsense. Here is what each layer does, and where the pattern breaks.

• Akka Cluster Sharding vs a Consistent-Hash Ring: What You Trade Away

  Published:Feb 12, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

  When I built a small distributed cache I reached for Akka Cluster Sharding instead of writing a consistent-hash ring myself. Six months later I think it was the right call — for a learning project. Here is what each choice actually buys you, and where the marketing gloss falls apart.

• The Missing Layer: Why AI Conversations Need Structure

  Published:Jan 11, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

  AI collapsed the cost of writing code. It didn't touch the cost of understanding it. What if we could make AI sessions as debuggable as the code they produce?