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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Latest field notes
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Agent workflows belong in code, not just visual builders
OpenAI is winding down Agent Builder and platform Evals. Production agent workflows need code, tests, traces, and reviewable contracts.
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Your agent installs Markdown from the internet and runs it. We spent 20 years learning not to do that.
Agent skills are dependencies with none of the controls. What the 2026 research found, why scanners miss it, and seven fixes for platform teams.
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Round-robin is malpractice for LLM traffic: what the Inference Gateway actually fixes
The Gateway API Inference Extension is GA. Why a normal Kubernetes Service balances model servers badly, and how to tell if you need an InferencePool.
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Who's writing this
Ajin Baby — 15 years making cloud platforms reliable, 2x founder before that. Azure AI Engineer, Neo4j Certified, IEEE member. More about me →