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what building a silicon design explorer taught us about making AI-built software dependable
AI can write an application. Turning it into a trusted business system requires identity, durable state, background jobs, controls, and an operating layer.
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what deployment infrastructure does a software factory need?
A software factory needs more than repo-based execution. It needs isolated running systems, machine-readable feedback, clear human boundaries, and bounded recovery.
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database vs cache vs queue vs object storage
Choose where application state belongs by durability, payload shape, access pattern, staleness, retention, transactional coupling, and delivery semantics.
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what should deployment infrastructure return to a software agent?
Agent-native infrastructure returns stable identity, explicit state, scoped diagnostics, provenance, safe retries, and clear authority boundaries.
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when should an agent need human approval to ship software?
Human approval should follow consequence, not authorship. Agents should move through isolated work and stop at launch, access, spend, and data-risk boundaries.
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what infrastructure does a production application need?
A production application needs the smallest correct combination of compute, durable state, routing, configuration, environments, and operations for its actual workload.
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Postgres vs Redis: when do you need each?
Start with Postgres for durable relational state. Add Redis when a measured workload needs shared low-latency coordination, caching, rate limits, streams, or queue semantics.
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what is a production-shaped preview environment for ai agents?
A production-shaped preview preserves an app's real topology, routing, policy, migrations, and managed services while isolating mutable state.
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why should deployment configuration remain reviewable in git?
Auditable application shape needs one durable source of truth. Git makes infrastructure changes reviewable, attributable, reproducible, and safe for agents to propose.
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why does shared staging break when software agents work in parallel?
Shared staging makes concurrent agent changes interfere through services, data, queues, migrations, and configuration. Branch-scoped previews restore attribution.
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how should agents test database migrations without touching production?
Agents should test migrations against isolated, representative state through the real deployment lifecycle, then prove application compatibility before release.
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web service vs worker vs cron job
Use a web service for request-response work, a worker for asynchronous or continuous work, and cron to trigger work because of time. Design retries and idempotency separately.