Agents app design pattern – this is a back-to-basics adaptation. How would we read this 14 years from now? Would the ideas he mentioned there be a standard?
https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents
The original document “12 factors app” is also worth reading (note that it was first published 2011+-) –
When the Agents Go Marching In: Five Design Paradigms Reshaping Our Digital Future
This post complements the previous one, covering the same topics. If you are in a hurry, jump to the “The Reinvention of UX: Five Emerging Paradigms” section. I feel that I cope with all those aspects, e.g., building trust, transparency, cognitive load distribution, etc., on a daily basis.
Using Alembic to create and seed a database
Seeding a database is essential for testing, development, and ensuring consistent application behavior across different environments. Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool for Python, designed to work seamlessly with SQLAlchemy.
We use Alembic to manage our database migrations, and I recently needed to seed our database for consistency across environments. I looked for several solutions and eventually used the solution in this post to create a migration that seeds the database –
https://medium.com/@fimd/using-alembic-to-create-and-seed-a-database-8f498638c406
A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – while this post focuses on AI products, specifically ones LLM-based, multiple lessons can also be adapted to non-LLM-based AI products and general products. Conducting an error analysis, generating synthetic data (preferably with domain express), and using a data viewer are good starting points.
https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/field-guide/
I Tried Running an MCP Server on AWS Lambda… Here’s What Happened – this post involves two topics I think a lot about these days – MCP and serverless computing. I think it is clear why I think a lot about MCPs. But why do I think about serverless computing? I think of it as a low-cost solution for early-stage startups. Early-stage startups usually have low traffic, which does not justify the cost of having servers up 24/7. On the other hand, the serverless development experience still needs some refinement, and there are services that one would like to host that do not support running in a serverless manner.
https://www.ranthebuilder.cloud/post/mcp-server-on-aws-lambda
Tom Ron 