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Your cache hit rate can be 99% and your database can still fall over. I got reminded of this during a load test recently: the dashboard showed a wall of cache hits, and yet the database briefly lit up with a burst of identical queries. Same key, same query, fifty times, all inside a couple hundred milliseconds. That burst has a name, cache stampede, and the annoying part is that the standard
Ship an MCP server at a company with compliance requirements and you will hit the same wall every team hits: the protocol connects your AI agent to tools beautifully, and it gives you almost nothing to control what that agent is allowed to touch once it is connected.
That gap is not a bug. MCP was built to solve con...
A user opened an issue on my open-source video tool last week that named a gap I had been shipping around for months.
He runs lectures through crv so an LLM can read them. One 22-minute lecture: 1,377 candidate frames extracted, 60 kept after dedup and --max-frames thinning. The 60 frames come out in the right order. That is all they come out with.
His complaint, in...
Hi dev.to, I've been building Nodlyn, a visual workflow builder with one specific obsession: it auto-discovers devices — industrial PLCs, smart home gadgets, whatever's on the network — and lets you wire them into automations without knowing the protocol underneath.
The gap I kept hitting
Most no-code automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n) are built for connecting SaaS apps to eac...
Building desktop applications with web tech usually means wrestling with heavy frameworks, writing clunky IPC bridge code, or shipping a 200MB Chromium bundle just to render a simple window.
I wanted something simpler: What if the web runtime was the system runtime?
That’s why I’ve been developing Infinity OS — a lightweight, web-native operating system designed to run pure HTML...