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151
Plexara: A Managed MCP Layer for Data Platforms
Deasil operates the endpoint. The engine is txn2/mcp-data-platform, Apache-2.0. I wrote the harness this replaced.
2026-09-10
150Don't Impersonate the Caller. Put the Credential on the Connection.
Trino, S3, DataHub, and vendor APIs do not share an identity model. They all have a credential.
2026-09-03
149OAuth in Front of Keycloak
Pre-registered clients and PKCE. Login stays in the IdP.
2026-09-01
148REST APIs for Agents
Index the OpenAPI document. Search across catalogs. Then call one operation.
2026-08-30
147Sessions Left the Protocol. Put the Handle in the Argument.
platform_info mints dps_…; the model threads it. Go SDK v1.7.0, MCP 2026-07-28.
2026-08-28
146Don't Ingest the CSV. Point Hive at It.
Hive still maps a table name to a directory of files
2026-08-26
145Don't Sandbox Python. Embed Starlark.
starlark-go in a Go server: FileOptions, host bindings, and a cancel watchdog
2026-08-24
144God Packages and Other Slow Failures
Structural ratchets for AI-assisted Go, six months into make verify
2026-08-22
143Do Cross-References Help LLM Agents Complete Documents?
The agent found every page certified unreachable. Links cut search cost and keep working when search is off; they do not change what it reaches
2026-08-20
142Knowledge Pollution: Verification Displacement, Capability, and the Price of a Curation Gate
A wrong note that passed review spread only where the agent could have checked it, and only on Haiku 4.5: 16 of 24, against 0 of 24 on Sonnet 5 and Opus 5
2026-08-17
141On-Prem GPUs in a Boring Kubernetes Cluster
Adding your own GPUs to the platform with the NVIDIA GPU Operator
2026-08-12
140One Cluster Across Clouds and Your Garage: Hybrid k3s With WireGuard
A single Kubernetes cluster spanning cloud regions and your own hardware, encrypted over the public internet
2026-08-10
139What Happened to the Blockchain Chapter
Why the chapter is cut from this rebuild, and where tamper-evidence lives in 2026
2026-08-08
138Serverless Without the Cloud: Knative on Your Cluster
Scale-to-zero functions you own, after OpenFaaS moved the good parts behind a paywall
2026-08-06
137Write-Heavy and Always On: Cassandra and Scylla on Kubernetes
Running Cassandra and Scylla on K8ssandra and the Scylla Operator after Rook dropped its own
2026-08-04
136Event-Driven Object Processing: Bucket Events to Jobs
Object storage that triggers work, a self-hosted answer to S3 plus Lambda on your own cluster
2026-08-02
135An Instrument for MCP Agent Studies
The harness behind two DOI-archived benchmark reports, and why a study premise can be killed in one working day
2026-08-01
134A Multi-User Data Lab: JupyterHub on Your Platform
Self-hosted notebooks for the whole team, on Keycloak SSO, wired to the lakehouse and every data source you own
2026-07-31
133IoT Ingest You Own: MQTT With Mosquitto on Kubernetes
Lightweight device messaging into the platform, bridged to Kafka, with the Mosquitto 2.0 change the old guides miss
2026-07-29
132See the Whole Platform: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry
Self-hosted observability for everything you built, on the open standard instead of a per-host APM bill
2026-07-27
131When Do Agents Use Stored Knowledge?
A benchmark that killed its own hypothesis: strong models re-derive what they can check, and a weak model trusts a stale note over the evidence in front of it
2026-07-26
130Cilium: One eBPF Data Plane for Networking, Security, and Encryption
The CNI that replaced Weave Net, kube-proxy, and a hand-rolled WireGuard overlay with a single component
2026-07-25
129containerd Without Docker: the Runtime Under Your Cluster
The container runtime the kubelet actually uses, and how to configure and debug it now that the Docker shim is gone
2026-07-23
128Does a Semantic Knowledge Layer Make an Agent Measurably Better?
A reproducible benchmark: 42.7% to 98.7% on knowledge-trap questions, and a platform that learns from empty
2026-07-22
127GitOps: Git as the Source of Truth for Your Cluster
Argo CD and Flux, the deployment half the 2020 book left out, with manifests reconciled from a repo you own
2026-07-21
126Build Images Inside Your Cluster, Without the Docker Socket
Rootless container builds in CI with BuildKit, and where supply-chain guardrails belong
2026-07-19
125Your Git Forge Belongs on Your Cluster: Forgejo
Self-hosted source, CI/CD, and a registry, on the lightweight fork that left its for-profit parent
2026-07-17
124The Agent Gateway to Your Platform: mcp-data-platform
An Apache-2.0 MCP server that gives frontier models access and grounded context to everything you built
2026-07-15
123A Data Catalog Your Agents Can Read: DataHub
Metadata, lineage, and a business glossary over the whole platform
2026-07-13
122Self-Hosted BI with Apache Superset
Dashboards and SQL exploration over the lakehouse and Postgres, a Tableau replacement on the platform's SSO
2026-07-11