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AI Agent Guardrails: Tool Gate, Audit Log, Token Budget
SecurityGovernance

AI Agent Guardrails: Tool Gate, Audit Log, Token Budget

AI agent guardrails with open source agentgateway: a per-role tool allowlist, audit log and token budget that stop a prompt injection, all run locally.

•17 min read
Agentic AI Architecture Framework: Autonomy Per Use Case
GovernanceArchitecture Practices

Agentic AI Architecture Framework: Autonomy Per Use Case

The Agentic AI Architecture Framework gives you three tiers. Build the Foundation once, then let each use case earn autonomy through evidence and impact.

9 min read
Token Exchange at the API Gateway: RFC 8693 in Practice
SecurityAPI Design

Token Exchange at the API Gateway: RFC 8693 in Practice

OAuth token exchange (RFC 8693) lets your API gateway hand the producer a token that still carries the user, so RBAC keeps working. Hands-on with Keycloak.

15 min read
Wardley Mapping: Build vs Buy Decisions as Code
Architecture PracticesDocumentation

Wardley Mapping: Build vs Buy Decisions as Code

Wardley Mapping turns build vs buy debates into a reviewable text file. Draw a Wardley map as code, mark what blocks change, and keep it beside your ADRs.

11 min read
Eventual Consistency in DDD: Measure the Window with Sagas
Design PatternsData Management

Eventual Consistency in DDD: Measure the Window with Sagas

Eventual consistency in DDD works when the inconsistency window is a business number. Build a .NET saga with outbox and idempotent consumers, then alert on it.

13 min read
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The TLS Inventory to Run Now
SecurityCloud & Infrastructure

Post-Quantum Cryptography: The TLS Inventory to Run Now

Post-quantum cryptography migration can't wait for quantum computers. Run this 20-minute OpenSSL check on your own TLS endpoints today.

11 min read
Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose With Chaos Mesh
ResilienceDevOps

Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose With Chaos Mesh

Chaos engineering means breaking systems on purpose to test failure predictions. Here is a real Chaos Mesh walkthrough on a local kind cluster.

14 min read

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