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Learn how Anthropic''s Model Context Protocol enables AI agents to securely share tools and context. We explore the open standard, build an MCP server, and compare it to function calling.
Memory leaks in Node.js are insidious — your service starts fine, runs smoothly for hours, then slowly dies as RAM fills up. Every restart buys a few more hours. Here''s how to diagnose, profile, and permanently fix memory leaks in production Node.js applications.
Mid-level engineers are technically strong but often miss the senior behaviors: anticipating downstream impact, communicating trade-offs, owning outcomes beyond their code. Effective mentoring targets the specific gaps, not general advice to "think bigger."
Master Kafka partition keys, FIFO queues, sequence numbers, global vs per-entity ordering, and when ordering isn''t worth the cost.
Your queue has 50 million unprocessed messages. Consumers are processing 1,000/second. New messages arrive at 5,000/second. The backlog will never drain. Here''s how queue backlogs form, why they''re dangerous, and the patterns to prevent and recover from them.