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Architecture

Docker Swarm in 2023: When It Still Makes Sense

Kubernetes won the orchestration battle, but Docker Swarm stays maintained inside Docker Engine and makes real sense for small teams without dedicated SRE, self-hosted stacks on 1-5 VPS, and edge mini-clusters. In those contexts, Swarm's minimal learning curve and low operational cost outweigh Kubernetes's advanced features.

Architecture

Enterprise GraphRAG: patterns after a year of adoption

A year after GraphRAG left the lab, one statistic holds: it works where corporate information has dense relational structure, fails where there are only loose documents. Patterns, ingestion costs, and architectural decisions that have survived a year of real deployment.

Software Development

AI tools for developers: the 2026 stack

The AI tool stack a developer uses in 2026 looks nothing like it did eighteen months ago. Agentic editors, review tools, terminal agents, and test assistants have settled into recognizable roles. A practical guide by category.

Architecture

Consolidated MCP ecosystem: a quick map for 2026

Twenty months after the initial announcement, Model Context Protocol went from curiosity to de-facto standard among agent clients and servers. What is available, which servers are worth it, which problems remain open, and how it compares to earlier protocol maps.

Architecture

Kubernetes 1.35: what you can already see coming

Con 1.34 liberado en agosto de 2025 y el ciclo de 1.35 en su última fase de congelación de funciones, qué llegará estable, qué quedará en beta, qué nos interesa a quienes mantenemos clústeres pequeños o medianos y qué podemos ignorar sin culpa hasta el siguiente ciclo.

Architecture

containerd with Wasm: mixed workloads in production

La integración de WebAssembly dentro de containerd como tiempo de ejecución alternativo ha madurado. Ya es posible desplegar cargas mixtas Linux y Wasm en el mismo clúster de Kubernetes con argumentos operativos sólidos. Cuándo compensa y cuándo no.