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The Integration Layer: Why MCPs “Blow Up” Context I wrote this post primarily to dig into why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is often blamed for consuming massive context windows and driving out-of-control token costs in online discussions.

Introduction With many real-time systems, there’s a pretty standard shape: ingest from a high-volume event stream assign those events to some entity periodically recompute derived state from recent observations At small to medium scale, a shared cache (Re…

Context One of the more common failure modes in real-time geospatial systems has nothing to do with algorithms being wrong.

Handling Noisy Probes and Unrealistic Paths This is a follow up to my last post; discussing issues I saw when map matching and some notes on improving against those problems.

Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve been digging into a small, self-contained map matcher written in Go.

Introduction I went to State of the Map US this past weekend in Richmond, VA and learned more about Protomaps which makes self-serving your own static map tiles dead simple.

Introduction This post demonstrates two tasks.

Introduction The purpose of this post is to document the pattern for utilizing the UNNEST pattern for multiple arrays.

Introduction AWS has been incrementally releasing some geospatial functionality on Athena over the past few years.

Introduction About a year and a half ago or so, AWS announced support for custom Lambda images.