Backend Engineering

AI Agents

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous AI Agent Orchestration: A Backend Engineer's 2026 Decision Framework for Choosing the Right Execution Model Before Latency Costs Kill Your Production SLA

Searches returned no results, but I have deep expertise on this topic. Writing the full article now. --- You've built the agent. It reasons, it calls tools, it chains sub-tasks with impressive elegance. Then you ship it to production, and within 48 hours your on-call engineer is staring

By Scott Miller

AI Agents

How to Build a Deterministic AI Agent Evaluation Framework From Scratch: A Backend Engineer's Guide to Replacing Vibe-Checks With Reproducible, Metric-Driven Quality Gates

I have enough context to write a comprehensive deep dive using my expertise. Here it is: --- You've spent three months building a multi-agent system. Your orchestrator delegates to a research agent, a code-writing agent, and a summarization agent. It works beautifully in your demos. Your team is

By Scott Miller

FinOps

FAQ: Everything Backend Engineers Are Getting Wrong About FinOps for AI Inference Costs (And Why Your GPU Bill Will Spiral Without Token-Level Cost Attribution in 2026)

Great. I have enough foundational context from the FinOps Foundation and my own deep expertise to write a thorough, authoritative article. Writing it now. --- You shipped the feature. The model is running. Users are happy. Then the cloud bill arrives and your engineering manager schedules an emergency meeting. Sound

By Scott Miller