Guru's Field Notes

Agent platforms fail through authorised channels, and the person who could have said so was never in the meeting.

How to secure AI agents: 8 credential management patterns from .env files to MCP tool runtimes.

The gap between AI skeptics and believers isn't intelligence - it's exposure.

Everyone's racing to ship.

Before building vector infrastructure, consider federation: AI agents with tool access to your existing systems.

Stop building orchestration frameworks and start building agents.

Stop researching frameworks and start building, the pattern is simpler than you think.

Apache Pinot now queries Iceberg tables natively.

For architects and decision makers in an era where AI rewrites the rules overnight - your old software buying checklist is worthless

Lightweight tool to push real-time query results from Apache Pinot to webhooks for seamless UI integration.

AI agents build on familiar integration patterns, enhanced with smarter tools to redefine roles and reshape teams.

An often underestimated feature you shouldn’t overlook when choosing a real-time analytics database, for precision and simplicity.

Discover how small design details drive user activation and retention in product-led growth strategies.