Architecture
Skills and subagents: the agent reuse pattern
Skills package reusable capabilities; subagents isolate bounded-task execution. Together they form the most effective pattern for composing complex agents in 2026.
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Architecture
Pragmatic software architecture: decisions, trade-offs and patterns that scale.
Architecture
MCP as multi-vendor standard: patterns already mature
The Model Context Protocol, proposed by Anthropic in late 2024 and adopted through 2025-2026 by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and the open-source community, already has proven operational patterns: separating generic servers from custom ones, explicit per-tool policies, credentials kept outside the model, prefixed composition, and contract tests. This is the state of the art in 2026.
Architecture
Hybrid RAG in 2026: the patterns that keep winning
Hybrid RAG in 2026 combines dense and lexical search fused with RRF, cross-encoder reranking over the top-50 candidates, structure-aware chunking, and continuous evaluation with Ragas or TruLens. It is the pattern that survives in serious production systems three years after the initial embeddings boom.
Architecture
Kubernetes 1.35 GA: an operations-side balance sheet
Kubernetes 1.35 GA consolidates three releases of work: native sidecars with full lifecycle management, generalised DRA for FPGAs and NPUs, and a scheduler that cuts resource waste by 15-25% in heterogeneous clusters. An operations-side balance sheet: what to enable now, what to watch before migrating, and what path to follow from 1.30.
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
Consolidated platform engineering: who wins and who gets stuck
Tres años después de que platform engineering se convirtiera en palabra de moda, el polvo ha caído. Unas pocas empresas tienen plataformas internas que de verdad aceleran al desarrollo, muchas montaron un portal Backstage vacío y algunas volvieron a DevOps clásico. Análisis de qué distingue a las que ganaron.
Architecture
Agent-to-agent protocols v1: what we have in hand
Six months after A2A landed at the Linux Foundation, and after several implementation cycles from Google, Microsoft, and open projects, what version 1 of the protocol means and whether it is safe to build on yet.