Orchestration & Scheduling
A pipeline is never one script — it’s many tasks (ingest this, clean that, join…
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Orchestrating with Pipecat
By now you have all the pieces — transports (Lessons 2–3), STT (Lesson 4), the…
Kubernetes for Backend Engineers — Pods, Scaling, Networking and Production
Kubernetes has a reputation for being complicated, and some of that is deserved…
What Kubernetes Actually Is
When I teach Kubernetes, I don’t start with or YAML. I start with one sentence…
Planning and Multi-Agent Patterns That Actually Work
There’s a type of architecture diagram I’ve started to dread. It has a “CEO…
Pattern: Managing Long-running Tasks
Not everything fits in a request/response. A user clicks “export my data” and…
Building AI Agents with Tool Use
An LLM by itself can only generate text. It cannot check the weather, query a…
LangChain & AI Orchestration Frameworks
You have a workflow: take user input, search a database, feed results to an LLM…
Explaining SAGA Patterns with Examples
In a monolith, placing an order is a single database transaction — deduct…