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Article: Building a Secure MCP Server on AWS for a Million-Company B2B Platform
We wanted to expose a B2B intelligence platform built on more than one million company profiles to an LLM client through an MCP server so a user can ask “find SaaS companies in Germany with 50-200 employees” and receive results through the LLM client. The engineering problem was: How do you make that workflow useful without creating an unsafe bridge between an LLM and production data?
By Shadi ElyafiPodcast: Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: A Conversation with Baruch Sadogursky
Michael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.
By Baruch SadogurskyPresentation: Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris share how engineers can move from being a "cost center" to a value driver using product discovery. They explain the "Double Diamond" framework and why identifying user problems must precede building solutions. Learn to choose the right metrics, build customer empathy through shadowing, and use business context to maximize the impact of your technical work.
By Cat Morris, Stéphane Di CesareCloudflare and Stripe Let AI Agents Create Accounts, Buy Domains, and Deploy to Production
Cloudflare and Stripe launched a protocol that lets AI agents autonomously create cloud accounts, register domains, start subscriptions, and deploy to production. Stripe handles identity and payment with a $100/month default cap. No other major cloud provider offers comparable agent-driven account provisioning.
By Steef-Jan WiggersNavigation API Reaches Baseline Newly Available as Replacement to the History API
The Navigation API is a new interface for managing client-side navigation in single-page applications, now available in major browsers as of January 2026. It addresses limitations of the prior History API by providing a unified event model and improved history management. Key features include the navigate event, automatic URL updates, and integrated error handling.
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