#Architecture

Model context protocol, agent to agent standards, and a dozen new specs are the loudest infra story in the room right now. Here is a plain language map of what goes where, which layer actually matters for lock in, and the one mistake that will cost you more than picking the wrong protocol.

We accepted that private work had to run on a stranger's computer. Local models just got good enough to change that. Here is why the cloud was a convenience trade disguised as a requirement, and what happens when inference moves back onto the device.

Software that works when the server dies is winning the teams that try it. Here is why the next wave of tools will treat offline as the default, not a fallback, and how a small studio builds that way on purpose.

Temporal gives you a cluster, Resonate gives you a protocol, and DBOS gives you decorators. This is a look at the lightest entry point into durable execution and the trade it makes to get there.

Resonate turns the humble promise into a distributed protocol. Instead of recording event history and replaying it, it lets two processes complete one function together, wherever they happen to be running.

Most backend code treats failure as an exception. Temporal treats it as the default. This is a plain language look at durable execution and why it quietly rewrote the rules of building reliable systems.

The request-response model built the web. But as systems get more complex, we might need something different: shared state that updates itself.