notes from the field
Making cloud run itself,
one agent at a time.
Hands-on writing on agentic infrastructure, MCP, and reliability — from someone shipping it in production at a Fortune-500 aviation platform, not theorizing about it. By Ajin Baby.
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Your newest platform user is an agent. Build it a golden path.
Agents are becoming first-class platform citizens. That is an IDP problem: identity, quotas, golden paths, and a portal agents consume as an API.
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OWASP published an MCP Top 10. Go count your servers before you read it.
OWASP now has a Top 10 dedicated to Model Context Protocol. The list is useful — but the census behind it is the part that should worry your platform team.
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The runner is the API: why your remediator's contract matters more than your handlers
Everyone reviews the handler that restarts the pod. The safety lives in the runner around it — and handlers that skip it silently void every guarantee.
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Ajin Baby — 15 years making cloud platforms reliable, 2x founder before that. Azure AI Engineer, Neo4j Certified, IEEE member. More about me →