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GitHub’s outage was caused by auth returning 401s
A major GitHub outage traced to authentication failures rather than a database issue, showing how a small service boundary can cascade across APIs
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How Redis handles Ctrl-C and shutdown signals
Databases trap SIGINT and SIGTERM so they can safely drain clients, preserve state, and avoid corrupting data during ordinary process termination
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Tool calls are just API wrappers, to be honest, not completely true.
Tool calls are just API wrappers, to be honest, not completely true. Although the most common use case is to call a search engine, hit a database, or fetch a URL. That framing is too narrow, and it limits how you design agents. At the end