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    How Anthropic Built Claude's Multi-Agent Research System

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All Engineering Runbooks (9)

Technical post-mortems, distributed systems runbooks, and AI architectures.

How Anthropic Built Claude's Multi-Agent Research System
AI
7 min
July 13, 2026

How Anthropic Built Claude's Multi-Agent Research System

Anthropic's Claude Research uses multiple AI agents that collaborate, reason, and coordinate in parallel, outperforming single agents by 90.2% on complex research tasks.

R
Rohit Lakhotia
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Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Cascading Failure: Post-Mortem & Fix
Cloud
8 min
August 12, 2026

Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Cascading Failure: Post-Mortem & Fix

A step-by-step breakdown of how a single misconfigured liveness probe triggered an avalanche of node evictions and a 38-minute outage across three availability zones.

J
Jordan Reeves
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Architecting Autonomous AI Agent Swarms with FastMCP & Structured Tool Routing
AI
10 min
August 16, 2026

Architecting Autonomous AI Agent Swarms with FastMCP & Structured Tool Routing

Moving beyond naive chat completions: how to orchestrate multi-agent state machines, deterministic tool schemas, and zero-latency context caching in enterprise workflows.

D
Dr. Sarah Lin
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Sub-Second Lakehouse Queries over Petabytes with Apache Iceberg and ClickHouse
Data
12 min
August 09, 2026

Sub-Second Lakehouse Queries over Petabytes with Apache Iceberg and ClickHouse

How to decouple object storage economics from real-time analytics velocity using open table metadata and vectorized columnar query engines.

A
Alex Rivera
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Migrating to eBPF Zero-Trust Networking with Cilium and SPIFFE
Security
11 min
August 04, 2026

Migrating to eBPF Zero-Trust Networking with Cilium and SPIFFE

Why traditional iptables-based network policies crumble at enterprise scale, and how eBPF enables kernel-level identity verification and mTLS without sidecar overhead.

P
Priya Nair
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How We Cut Enterprise CI Build Times from 48 Minutes to 3 Minutes
DevOps
7 min
July 28, 2026

How We Cut Enterprise CI Build Times from 48 Minutes to 3 Minutes

A deep dive into distributed remote caching, multi-platform container compilation, and Kubernetes-native ephemeral runner pools.

M
Marco Esposito
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Architecting Hackathons as Real-Time Chaos Engineering Laboratories
Hackathons
6 min
July 15, 2026

Architecting Hackathons as Real-Time Chaos Engineering Laboratories

Why Cerebral Hacks builds automated load generators, simulated infrastructure outages, and live scoring engines for our technical competitions.

E
Elena Rostova
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PostgreSQL at 50,000 QPS: Indexing Tricks, Connection Pooling & Vacuum Tuning
DevOps
9 min
July 02, 2026

PostgreSQL at 50,000 QPS: Indexing Tricks, Connection Pooling & Vacuum Tuning

Practical techniques for keeping relational databases responsive under extreme concurrent write amplification.

S
Sam Chen
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Threat Modelling Workshop Recap: Top 5 Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Attendees
Training recaps
5 min
June 25, 2026

Threat Modelling Workshop Recap: Top 5 Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Attendees

A summary of the live architecture teardown from our July webinar, featuring real flaws discovered in distributed auth implementations.

P
Priya Nair
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