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CLI vs MCP: How Should AI Agents Talk to Tools?
Both call the same APIs under the hood. The difference is how the agent invokes them — and that difference matters more than you think.
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Both call the same APIs under the hood. The difference is how the agent invokes them — and that difference matters more than you think.
CRUD overwrites history. Event Sourcing remembers everything. Here's when that matters and when it's overkill.
Redundant pipelines, intelligent segment selection, and a custom storage layer — inside Netflix's Live Origin architecture.
Logging, auth, retries, rate limiting — the stuff nobody designs upfront but everyone suffers from later.
Every architecture solves one problem and creates three new ones. Here's what nobody tells you before you commit.
You don't have Netflix's problems. You have 3 developers and a Postgres database.
Reddit moved their comments system from Python to Go. The unglamorous reality of migration.
Netflix ripped out Kafka, Cassandra, and three cache layers. Because every cache is a lie.
Synchronous calls work until they don't. Then you need a message queue. Here's why.
The hidden state in your servers is why you can't just 'add more boxes'.
That abstraction layer you're building? You don't need it yet.
High throughput doesn't mean low latency. Often it means the opposite.
Partial failures, network lies, clock drift. Everything that makes distributed systems a nightmare.
API Gateway handles the outside chaos. Service mesh handles the inside chaos.