Scott Miller

AI Agents

How One Backend Team's Post-Mortem Revealed Why Their AI Agent Audit Logging Strategy Collapsed Under Regulatory Scrutiny , And the Tamper-Evident, Compliance-Ready Event Sourcing Architecture They Built to Survive It in 2026

It started with a routine regulatory review. It ended with a three-week scramble, two engineer burnouts, and a compliance gap so wide that the legal team briefly considered halting the product entirely. The team in question: a seven-person backend engineering group at a mid-sized fintech SaaS company we will call

By Scott Miller

backend engineering

FAQ: Why Backend Engineers Are Underestimating Stateful Session Chaos at Scale , And What a Demand-Adaptive Context Eviction Architecture Actually Looks Like in 2026

ChatGPT crossing 900 million weekly active users in 2026 is not just a product milestone. It is a seismic stress test for every backend engineer who ever assumed that AI sessions behave like traditional HTTP requests. Spoiler: they do not. Not even close. The dirty secret circulating in backend engineering

By Scott Miller

AI architecture

How One Backend Team's Post-Mortem Exposed a Critical Gap in Their AI Vendor Geopolitical Risk Framework (And the Architecture They Built to Fix It)

In early 2026, a backend engineering team at a mid-sized SaaS company discovered something deeply uncomfortable during a routine incident review: their entire agentic AI pipeline could be taken offline by a single regulatory dispute they had absolutely no control over. The trigger? Anthropic's high-profile standoff with the

By Scott Miller

ChatGPT

ChatGPT's Surge to 900 Million Weekly Users Is Exposing the Next Frontier of AI Infrastructure Risk: Here's What the Demand Curve Predicts for Backend Capacity Planning Through Q4 2026

I have enough context from my research and professional expertise to write a comprehensive, data-informed article. Let me compose it now. --- When OpenAI reported crossing 500 million weekly active users in late 2024, the tech world applauded. When that number climbed past 700 million by mid-2025, analysts revised their

By Scott Miller