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How an agent.Session carries conversation history across RunText calls so the model remembers earlier turns.
Thread conversation history across RunText calls with an agent.Session and agent.WithSession, so a follow-up prompt builds on the previous turn; a new session starts fresh.
5K+ loans per month. Three credit bureaus. Multiple payment gateways. The thing that has to be right is the ledger. Notes on what invariants the database enforces vs what the application enforces.
The companies that win over the long run are rarely the ones with the single best idea — they're the ones that execute consistently well, day after day, and keep getting a little better. That's operational excellence: not a one-time achievement but an ongoing discipline of running well and continuously improving. This closing post pulls the series together — processes, structure, org design, scaling, decisions, culture — into the bigger picture of operations as the enabler that lets everything else in a company succeed.
The companies that win over the long run are rarely the ones with the single best idea — they're the ones that execute consistently well, day after day, and keep getting a little better. That's operational excellence: not a one-time achievement but an ongoing discipline of running well and continuously improving — the enabler that lets everything else succeed.
How to wrap every agent run with a middleware — the standard hook for logging, tracing, and guardrails.
Wrap every agent run with an agent.Middleware in the Foundry Go SDK: one pass-through function that observes messages and updates without altering the result.
Borrower onboarding is the most fraud-prone moment in a P2P platform. The shape that worked: deterministic KYC, parallel bureau pulls with fallback, real-time fraud signals, and a maker-checker approval for every disbursement.
Culture is the most powerful and least tangible force in any organization — "the way we do things around here," the invisible set of shared norms and values that shapes how everyone behaves, especially when no one's watching. Every organization has a culture whether or not anyone designed it, and it will either be shaped deliberately or form by accident. Because culture governs behavior at a scale no rules or processes can reach, understanding it — and knowing that it's shaped by actions, not words — is essential to how organizations actually function.
Culture is the most powerful and least tangible force in any organization — 'the way we do things around here,' the invisible norms that shape how everyone behaves, especially when no one's watching. Every organization has a culture whether or not anyone designed it — and it's shaped by actions, not words.
How to resume a long-running remote agent stream after it drops — using a continuation token to reconnect instead of re-sending the expensive query.
Capture the continuation token from a streamed remote run, then reconnect with WithContinuationToken and no messages to resume the same task to completion.
100K+ votes, 10K+ concurrent users during a live AFL Brownlow Medal broadcast. The architecture: Go on Cloud Run, GraphQL + gRPC behind a CDN, vote integrity through Cloud KMS + Security Command Center. Notes on what makes a live-broadcast load shape unusual.
Organizations are, in a sense, machines for making decisions — and how well they decide, and how fast, shapes everything. Yet decision-making is often left implicit: no one's quite sure who decides what, decisions stall in endless consensus-seeking or get made by whoever's loudest, and the same questions get re-litigated forever. Getting decision-making right — clear ownership, the right balance of speed and quality, distributed appropriately — is one of the highest-leverage things an organization can do, and one of the most neglected.
Organizations are, in a sense, machines for making decisions — and how well and how fast they decide shapes everything. Yet decision-making is often left implicit: no one's sure who decides, decisions stall in endless consensus, and the same questions get re-litigated forever. Getting it right — clear ownership, the right speed, distributed appropriately — is high-leverage and neglected.
How to pin which transport a client uses when a remote A2A agent advertises several bindings at once.
Pin the transport an A2A client uses via PreferredTransports so binding negotiation is deterministic, while the wrapped remote agent stays a plain agent.Agent.
30 minutes on stage. The talk title looked tactical; the talk underneath was about why most microservices migrations fail and how to set up the one that doesn't.
Adding people to a growing company feels like it should straightforwardly add capacity — but it doesn't, and understanding why is one of the most important lessons in operations. Every person you add creates new communication links with everyone else, and those links grow far faster than the headcount. This is why big teams feel slower than small ones, why "adding people to a late project makes it later," and why scaling an organization is mostly a battle against communication overhead. Managing that overhead is the core challenge of scaling.
Adding people to a growing company feels like it should straightforwardly add capacity — but it doesn't. Every person you add creates new communication links with everyone else, and those grow far faster than the headcount. This is why big teams feel slower than small ones, and why scaling is mostly a battle against communication overhead.