Model Context Protocol (MCP): The USB-C Standard for AI Integrations

If you’ve spent any time building AI-powered applications in the last year, you’ve probably run into the same problem dozens of times: every tool, every data source, every external service needs its own custom integration. Your AI assistant needs to talk to your database? Write an adapter. It needs to call your APIs? Write another one. Search your files? Yet another bespoke connector.

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Zero Trust Security in Practice: Moving Beyond the Perimeter in Cloud-Native Systems

The old security model was built around a perimeter: inside the firewall, you’re trusted; outside, you’re not. For decades, this worked well enough. Corporate networks were physical places. Servers sat in data centers you controlled. Employees came to the office.

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WebAssembly in 2026: The Runtime That Escaped the Browser

WebAssembly was introduced to the world as a faster way to run code in browsers. C++ games, video editors, image processing — things that JavaScript couldn’t handle performantly. That was the pitch in 2017.

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Rust in Production: Lessons from Three Years of Replacing Python and Go Services

I’ve spent the last three years migrating production services from Python and Go to Rust. Some migrations were triumphant. A few were disasters we quietly rolled back. Most were somewhere in between — significant wins that came with real costs.

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