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## Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead
By @denisp [ 23 Min read ]
Success isn’t building the agent; it’s managing it. From “AgentOps” to ROI dashboards, here is the operational playbook for scaling Enterprise AI. Read More.
The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture 
By @denisp [ 12 Min read ]
An AI agent without memory is just a script. An agent without guardrails is a liability. The 7 critical pillars of building production-grade Agentic AI. Read More.
Patterns That Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in AI Agent Deployment 
By @denisp [ 17 Min read ]
Avoid the “AI Slop” trap. From runaway costs to memory poisoning, here are the 7 most common failure modes of Agentic AI (and how to fix them). Read More.
Best HR Software For Midsize Companies in 2026 
By @stevebeyatte [ 12 Min read ]
Modern midsize companies need platforms that balance sophistication with agility, offering powerful features without overwhelming complexity. Read More.
Playbook for Production ML: Latency Testing, Regression Validation, and Automated Deployment 
By @stevebeyatte [ 4 Min read ]
Even the most automated systems still need an underlying philosophy. Read More.
Should We Be Worried About Losing Jobs? Or Just Adapt Our Civilization to New Reality? 
By @chris127 [ 10 Min read ]
The question isn’t whether jobs will disappear—it’s whether our traditional work model is still valid. Read More.
AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Work for Us 
By @bernard [ 4 Min read ]
I believe that AI’s impact and future pathways are overstated because human nature is ignored in such statements. Read More.
In a World Obsessed With AI, The Miniswap Founders Are Betting on Taste 
By @stevebeyatte [ 4 Min read ]
Miniswap, a Warhammer marketplace founded by Cambridge students, is betting on taste, curation, and community over AI automation. Learn how they raised $3.5M. Read More.
Innovation And Accountability: What AstraBit’s Broker-Dealer Registration Signals for Web3 Finance 
By @astrabit [ 5 Min read ]
What AstraBit’s FINRA broker-dealer registration signals for Web3 finance, regulatory accountability, and how innovation and compliance can coexist. Read More.
9 RAG Architectures Every AI Developer Should Know: A Complete Guide with Examples 
By @hck3remmyp3ncil [ 11 Min read ]
RAG optimizes language model outputs by having them reference external knowledge bases before generating responses. Read More.
**[ISO 27001 Compliance Tools in 2026: A Comparative Overview of 7 Leading Platforms
](https://hackernoon.com/iso-27001-compliance-tools-in-2026-a-comparative-overview-of-7-leading-platforms)** 
By @stevebeyatte [ 7 Min read ]
Breaking down the best ISO 27001 Compliance tools in the market for 2026. Read More.
A Developer’s Guide to Building Next-Gen Smart Wallets With ERC-4337 — Part 2: Bundlers 
By @hacker39947670 [ 15 Min read ]
Bundlers are the bridge between account abstraction and the execution layer. Read More.
IPv6 and CTV: The Measurement Challenge From the Fastest-Growing Ad Channel 
By @ipinfo [ 7 Min read ]
IPv6 breaks digital ad measurement. Learn how IPinfo’s research-driven, active-measurement model restores accuracy across CTV and all channels. Read More.
Should You Trust Your VPN Location? 
By @ipinfo [ 9 Min read ]
IPinfo reveals how most VPNs misrepresent locations and why real IP geolocation requires active measurement, not claims. Read More.
I Built an Enterprise-Scale App With AI. Here’s What It Got Right—and Wrong 
By @leonrevill [ 8 Min read ]
Is AI making developers faster or just worse? A CTO builds a complex platform from scratch to test the “Stability Tax, and why “Vibe Coding” is dead. Read More.
We Replaced 3 Senior Devs with AI Agents: One Year 
By @dineshelumalai [ 7 Min read ]
A Software Architect’s account of replacing senior devs with AI. $238K savings became $254K in real costs. Why human judgment still matters. Read More.
Brand Clarity vs Consensus 
By @erelcohen [ 2 Min read ]
In a polarized 2025 market, enterprise software companies can no longer win through broad consensus—only through brand clarity. Read More.
Why Data Quality Is Becoming a Core Developer Experience Metric 
By @melissaindia [ 4 Min read ]
Bad data secretly slows development. Learn why data quality APIs are becoming core DX infrastructure in API-first systems and how they accelerate teams. Read More.
DynamoDB: When to Move Out ![]()
By @scylladb [ 6 Min read ]
ScyllaDB offers a high-performance NoSQL alternative to DynamoDB, solving throttling, latency, and size limits for scalable workloads. Read More.
How to Choose the Right Vector Database for a Production-Ready RAG Chatbot 
By @nee2112 [ 10 Min read ]
A hands-on comparison of vector databases for RAG chatbots, showing why filtering and hybrid search matter in real production systems. Read More.
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