MCP Tasks vs Streaming vs Webhooks: Handling Long-Running Agent Tool Calls
The MCP Tasks extension turns long tool calls into a polling state machine. How it compares to SSE streaming and webhooks, and when each one breaks.
Kafka Queues (KIP-932) vs RabbitMQ vs SQS: Picking a Task Queue After Kafka 4.2
Kafka 4.2 made Queues for Kafka GA. How share groups compare with RabbitMQ and SQS on ordering, redelivery, scaling and cost for task queues.
Durable Execution Architecture: Temporal, Restate and DBOS (2026)
Durable execution explained: how event-sourced replay makes workflows crash-proof - deterministic code, event history, Temporal vs Restate vs DBOS trade-offs and failure modes.
Ledger Database Architecture: Double-Entry Accounting at Scale (2026)
A ledger database architecture for fintech: double-entry invariants, immutable append-only design, balance consistency, TigerBeetle-class throughput, and audit.
Dapr for Distributed Microservices: A 2026 Tool Deep-Dive and Tutorial
A Dapr deep-dive for 2026: building blocks, the sidecar model, service invocation, state, pub/sub, workflows, and how Dapr abstracts infrastructure on Kubernetes.
Asynchronous Processing Architecture Patterns (2026)
Asynchronous processing patterns for 2026: queues, the outbox pattern, idempotency, backpressure, retries, dead-letter queues, and exactly-once semantics.
Best Free System Design Resources to Learn in 2026
Curated, ranked guide to the best free system design videos, books, and labs in 2026 — what each teaches and how to sequence them.