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Your AI Agent Doesn't Need a Bigger Context Window. It Needs an Eviction Policy.

Filter-After-Slice: The Bug That Quietly Broke Our Deduplication Window

Stop a Malicious postinstall Script Cold With One CircleCI Config Change

Self-Hosted CI Runners: CircleCI vs GitHub Actions vs GitLab — When Bring-Your-Own-Compute Actually Pays Off

The Green 'Done' That Lied: A War Story About Status Fields That Don't Mean What You Think

Give Your AI Agent a Memory So It Stops Repeating the Same Failed Tool Call

The 7.4% You Don't See: Checkpointing Long LLM Jobs Before They Time Out

The Airbyte Column Nobody Queries: Find Every Silent Sync Failure in 15 Minutes

Find Your Worst Postgres Query in 15 Minutes with pg_stat_statements

Mem0 vs Zep vs LangChain Memory vs Letta: Picking the Right Agent Memory Architecture

Building a CircleCI Orb From Scratch: Test It Locally Before You Ever Publish

Smarter Test Splitting in CircleCI: Balancing Parallel Containers with Real Timing Data Instead of Guesswork

Building Resilient Retry Logic in Node.js: Exponential Backoff, Jitter, and Circuit Breakers Done Right

Monitoring Airbyte's Postgres CDC Replication Slots Before They Take Down Your Source Database

Building an Airbyte Destination Connector That Embeds and Dedupes Records Before They Hit pgvector

Mem0 Auto-Resolves Memory Conflicts For You — Until It Silently Deletes One You Still Need

Building Airbyte Connectors That Survive Flaky APIs: Cursor Checkpointing for Resilient Incremental Sync

The Watchdog Pattern: Keeping a Long-Running AI Agent Alive on a Bare VPS

Testing Non-Deterministic LLM Pipelines in CI: A Contract-Based Approach

Stop Stuffing Your LLM Agent's Context Window: Structured Memory Categories with Mem0

Context Engineering Beats Prompt Engineering: How to Actually Get Good Output From Coding Agents

Part 2: Authentication Flows

Part 1: Setup & JWT Basics