Boyan Balev·Nov 8, 2025How Uber Scaled from 40M to 150M Database Reads/Second — Without Adding More DatabasesA deep dive into CacheFront’s architecture and the engineering principles that reduced infrastructure costs by 95%A response icon2A response icon2
Boyan Balev·Nov 8, 2025Back to some custom code: The Case for Code Execution with MCPAnthropic’s research reveals how code execution cuts agent costs by 98.7% while unlocking capabilities direct tool calls can’t match
Boyan Balev·Oct 31, 2025The Memory Paradox: What if AI’s Perfect Recall Is Actually Holding It Back?Here’s a weird observation that’s been bugging AI researchers lately. Is AI lost in the middle?
Boyan Balev·Sep 17, 2025KRO to Kubernetes is What MCP is to LLMs: The Rise of Declarative OrchestrationHow Two Revolutionary Abstractions Are Democratizing Complex Technologies
Boyan Balev·Jun 21, 2025🚀 The Closure Table Pattern for Hierarchical Filters — with SQLUsed by Amazon, Netflix, Shopify, Airbnb, and many others, the Closure Table pattern solves a persistent pain point in data modeling: fast…
Boyan Balev·Jun 8, 2025Encapsulation and KISS: The Superior Path to Sustainable Software DevelopmentIn the world of software development principles, few debates are as contentious as the balance between eliminating code duplication and…
Boyan Balev·Jun 7, 2025The Hero’s Covenant: What Achilles, Batman, and Aragorn Teach Us About the Price of MeaningThree men, three choices, one terrible question
Boyan Balev·Jun 6, 2025The Nuance Problem: Where AI Misses the mark with the Art of Software DevelopmentA deep dive into why current AI systems miss the human wisdom that makes software development both challenging and beautiful
Boyan Balev·Jun 1, 2025Skeletons : The Pinnacle of Loading States in React 19Today we examine the evolution and implementation of skeleton loading states in React 19, presenting a comprehensive analysis of their…
