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In this article, we’ll explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) briefly and help you decide whether it deserves your attention or can be safely ignored for now. The AI landscape has been buzzing with excitement around Large Language Models (LLMs), and MCP has emerged as one of the key protocols in this rapidly evolving ecosystem. As with any hype, it is important to take a step back and understand the basics before onboarding the train - choo choo!...

This article shall give an overview of various popular multi-tenant database patterns and their pros and cons - through a SaaS lens. That means that we analyze the patterns in terms of their suitability for SaaS applications and their tradeoffs. While there are many good posts already available on the internet, I want to bring together different naming conventions and patterns in one place, for a better overview and comparison....

In this post I want to show you how Kubernetes recognizes offline nodes and how they are handled by the system. This can be helpful to understand and tune rescheduling mechanics or when developing your own operators and resources.

In this post I explain several ways to build docker images for multiple architectures. Docker’s buildx, manifest, and QEMU are the tools we’re going to use.

A few weeks ago while I was browsing for reducer-functions, I stumbled upon a term called “transducer”. Because I really like simple and declarative data transformations in code (e.g. with map and reduce), I looked into this topic. At first transducers can be kinda hard to grasp, but once you got it, you’ll have an elegant technique for efficient and composable transformations in your “developer toolbelt”. What does it do? The name “transducer”, consisting of the words “reduce” and “transform”, describes its functionality pretty well....