Harness Engineering: How AI Development Earns Its Place in Regulated Software
The agent generates; the harness decides what counts. In regulated domains, harness engineering is the discipline that turns a stochastic coder into an auditable one.
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view all →Two Lines of Defence Against Drift in SDD-Built Distributed Systems
Golden tests and runtime conformance probes guard different lifecycle stages — together they make spec drift visible before and after merge.
Spec-Driven Development: Drift, Trade-offs, and the Roles That Must Adapt
When the spec is the source and the agent is the compiler, drift becomes the new bug class — and every classical role has to retool around it.
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The EIP Process Manager Pattern with Temporal, Spring Boot, and Hexagonal Architecture
The Process Manager pattern gives long-running business workflows an explicit, stateful home — and Temporal is the infrastructure that makes that state durable without leaking into your domain.
Demistifying Event Sourcing (1 of 5)
A part-by-part deep dive into event sourcing through five myth-busting articles.