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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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Claude Code Hooks: Guardrails That Don't Depend on the Model Remembering
CLAUDE.md is advice the model can reinterpret. Hooks run every time. Four working hooks, the exit-code gotcha that fails open, and where hooks stop.
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LiteLLM 1.107.0: The Key Was Deleted in May. Nobody Revoked It.
The malicious release was live for two hours. Getting there took five months, an agent platform holding an owner's token, and a relaxed release gate.
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How to Write a Postmortem Someone Will Actually Read
A practical template for blameless postmortems: when to write one, what each section is for, how to word it, and a small linter that catches the usual mistakes.
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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 →