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Latest Articles

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AI & Software Development

Designing Custom MCP Servers for Developer Agents: Exposing Local Tools to Claude and Cursor

A complete step-by-step developer tutorial on creating custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Node.js and Python to expose local databases, git.

20 mins read · July 14, 2026
CI/CD & DevOps

Value Stream Mapping for Software Teams: Eliminating Invisible Wait Time

Discover how Value Stream Mapping (VSM) exposes invisible queue delays.

8 mins read · July 10, 2026
AI Engineering & Agents

Claude Coworker in Production: Architecting Collaborative Multi-Agent Teams in Enterprise Git Workflows

A complete practitioner's blueprint for deploying the Claude Coworker framework in enterprise repositories.

9 mins read · July 10, 2026
Blog

Team Topologies for AI-Era Engineering: Stream-Aligned Teams and Cognitive Load

How Team Topologies manages developer cognitive load in 2026. Guide to stream-aligned, enabling, and platform teams for AI engineering.

12 mins read · July 6, 2026
Git & DevOps

GitOps for Agentic Code: Branching, Review, and Audit When AI Writes 60% of Commits

GitOps for Agentic Code: Branching, Review, and Audit When AI Writes 60% of Commits By Vatsal Shah | June 27, 2026 | 14 min read Table of Contents - The.

14 mins read · June 27, 2026
AI Engineering

Beyond Copy-Paste: Designing Test-Driven Loops with Claude and Cursor for Zero-Regression Codebases

Master AI-powered Test-Driven Development (AI-TDD). Learn how to design automated Red-Green-Refactor feedback loops with Claude Code and Cursor to eliminate AI hallucinations and guarantee zero-regression codebases.

16 mins read · June 22, 2026
AI Engineering

Spec-Driven Development with Kiro: Build Production Features from requirements.md, Not Prompts

Master Spec-Driven Development (SDD) with AWS Kiro. Discover how requirements.md (EARS syntax), design.md, and tasks.md eliminate prompt drift and turn code into a deterministic build artifact.

21 mins read · May 18, 2026

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