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Should You Harness the Harness

Six limits an orchestrator skill cannot write its way out of, because they follow from where the procedure runs rather than from how well it was written.

1. Part 1 What the orchestrator skill cannot do
2. Part 2 What a workflow engine actually is
3. Part 3 What Archon is, and how you use it
4. Part 4 Inside the Archon engine
5. Part 5 So, should you?

• ai
• agents
• workflows
• automation
• claude-code
• harness

Designing Agentic Development Workflows

What an agentic development workflow is: a phased procedure that makes a model's work inspectable and interruptible, and the parts it is built from.

1. Part 1 What a workflow is, and what it is made of
2. Part 2 Principles for a workflow you can trust
3. Part 3 The cost of control
4. Part 4 Is it working, and is it worth it
5. Part 5 Shipping it, porting it, letting it run
6. Part 6 Where it hurts, and what to build first

• ai
• agents
• workflows
• automation
• claude-code

Secrets management at scale with HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault in production at Fyber, plus the open-source hashi-tools library that hands each service short-lived, least-privilege credentials at runtime.

• hashicorp
• fyber
• vault
• consul
• scala
• open-source

Syncing Kubernetes services with HashiCorp Consul

Sync Consul with Kubernetes services using consul-helm: the chart values that matter, reaching the Consul HTTP API, and resolving the domain in CoreDNS.

• kubernetes
• consul
• hashicorp

Behavior-driven Tests for JEE with JBehave

JBehave and Thucydides for BDD on a JEE web app: the terminology that matters, how the toolchain fits together, and the 'Volcano' stories used throughout.

1. Part 1 Terminology, tools and the 'Volcano' stories
2. Part 2 Writing stories and Java implementation
3. Part 3 Automating tests and generating reports

• jee
• java
• jbehave
• bdd
• automation
• tests

Development & Delivery with jGit-flow and Jenkins

The jgit-flow Maven plugin, Jira and Jenkins Pipeline as a single delivery workflow: what each tool owns, and how git-flow maps onto your real releases.

1. Part 1 Tools and planning
2. Part 2 Git workflow with jGit-flow
3. Part 3 Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline

• jira
• jenkins
• pipeline
• git-flow
• jgit-flow
• ci/cd
• release
• deployment
• maven

Tuning Akka for Actor-based Systems

Akka dispatcher tuning: how many actor instances to run, which routing strategy fits which load, and how to size the fork-join and thread-pool executors.

1. Part 1 Initial Akka configurations
2. Part 2 Gathering and analyzing metrics with Kamon

• scala
• akka

Stackable Traits in Scala

Scala's stackable traits pattern, built step by step into a layered error-reporting design, with the trait stack, linearisation order and runnable code.

1. Part 1 Error-reporting design
2. Part 2 Gathering metrics with stackable actors

• scala
• stackable
• traits