Whose Authority Reaches the Tools?
Deciding, server by server, whether an ADK agent on Agent Runtime calls its MCP tools as the employee or as itself: on-behalf-of tokens for one query, email sent by the backend after approval, Agent Identity for …
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Architecture
What Your Agents Inherit From Your Data Engineering
25 minutes
An agent can only explain what your data platform can explain. How business rules, their history, and corrections are engineered from the …
From an Entra Sign-In to an Agent Session
43 minutes
How an employee's Microsoft Entra sign-in reaches an ADK agent on Agent Runtime: the token checks, the session binding, who else can call …
Native Tables, Managed Iceberg, or Iceberg in an Open Catalog
58 minutes
Choosing storage for a BigQuery lakehouse layer by layer: what native tables, managed Iceberg, and Iceberg in an open catalog each give up, …
Multi-Cloud Retail Without the Mess
21 minutes
Many QSR and retail estates run identity in Microsoft Entra ID, back-office systems on SQL Server in Azure, the data platform on Google …
Thousands of Sites, One Pipeline
22 minutes
Why operations and analytics report different sales for the same store-day, and how a medallion pipeline brings a multi-site network to one …
The Loyalty Backend Is a Data Engineering Problem
10 minutes
Loyalty points are a balance-sheet liability as well as a marketing tool. Following one point through enrolment, earning, accrual, …
The CTO Playbook for Agentic Systems
6 minutes
A 71-page operating manual for engineering leaders whose software has started to reason, decide, and write the software that carries out …
A 150B MoE on a Developer Laptop: An Upper Bound on What Faster Storage Buys You
18 minutes
A 150-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model streamed from NVMe on an ordinary developer laptop with no usable GPU. Across a 200-token …
Protecting the IP in a Generative World
10 minutes
A studio can find its back catalogue inside a public model's training data and discover it cannot prove, from its own systems, when the work …
Launch Day Is Every Day
9 minutes
Subscription and on-demand media platforms still spend their engineering effort preparing for the scheduled launch, while the traffic that …
Arkhe: An Ontology Language for AI Systems
7 minutes
Two weeks ago I argued that your ontology is the asset and you should own it in a neutral, versioned form. Arguing is cheap. Arkhe v0.2 is …
Regulatory Evidence at Machine Speed
9 minutes
Regulators have moved from asking banks for periodic reports to asking for specific evidence, on demand, about decisions made months ago. …