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A Hands-On Guide to kalbee: Your First Kalman Filter (and Beyond)
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Building Resilient Real-Time Systems: WebSockets, Redis, and Strategies for High Availability
Originally published on tamiz.pro . Real-time systems are at the heart of modern interactive applications, from chat platforms to collaborative editing tools and financial dashboards. Delivering a seamless, low-latency experience while ensuring high availability and fault tolerance presents significant architectural challenges. This deep-dive explores how WebSockets, for persistent client-server communication, and Redis, for state management and pub/sub, can be combined with strategic design patterns to build resilient real-time systems. The Core Challenge of Real-Time Resilience The primary challenge in real-time systems is maintaining continuous connectivity and data flow despite inevitable network issues, server failures, or application restarts. A single point of failure can disrupt numerous active user sessions, leading to a poor user experience. Resilience, in this context, means the system's ability to recover gracefully from failures and continue operating, even if in a degraded state. WebSockets: The Foundation for Real-Time Communication WebSockets provide a full-duplex communication channel over a single TCP connection, enabling persistent, low-latency message exchange between client and server. Unlike traditional HTTP requests, WebSockets keep the connection open, eliminating the overhead of connection setup for each message. However, managing a large number of concurrent WebSocket connections and ensuring their availability across a distributed system requires careful design. WebSocket Server Scalability and Load Balancing Directly load balancing WebSocket connections using standard HTTP load balancers can be tricky because WebSockets are long-lived. Sticky sessions are often employed to ensure a client consistently connects to the same backend server. While this works, it can lead to uneven server load and complicates server replacement during failures. A more robust approach involves a dedicated WebSocket gateway layer that can manage connections and
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Looking for Contributors: Building FaultPlane, a High-Performance System Engine (Good First Issues Open!)
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Write Your Exceptions Down
I had a rule with no exceptions. RETSBAN, my primary agent, runs local inference only: open models on my own hardware, no cloud, no fallback. If the GPU box is down, the agent is down. Then Mia, the agent that runs my marketing, needed a frontier model to do her job well. And I did something that felt strangely formal for a one-person company. I amended my own policy, in writing, with the date attached. No one was in the room Here is what took me a while to see. A human employee remembers the day you made an exception. They were in the room when you said fine, just this once. An agent was never in the room. There is no room. Every session starts cold from the files, and the files are the only memory the company has. So when the policy says local only, no exceptions, and reality contains an exception, one of two things happens. Either the agent obeys the file and blocks work I actually want done, or it notices the contradiction and starts guessing which side to trust. The guessing is the dangerous case. A rule that has been contradicted once, silently, is not a rule anymore. Every agent that loads it gets to decide, in every session, whether to believe it. You never see the deciding. You just see the drift. An exception that lives in your head does not bend a rule. It erases it. The amendment On 2026-04-23 I opened the policy file, a file literally named local_only_no_anthropic, and narrowed it instead of breaking it. The amendment names who is exempt: Mia, and only Mia. It says why: marketing work that needs capability the local stack does not have. It carries the date, and it points to the full model-topology doc for anyone, human or agent, who wants the whole picture. RETSBAN's constraint did not move an inch. Still local only. Still no fallback. Still down when the GPU box is down. That is the difference between an amendment and a repeal. An unwritten exception repeals the rule and hides the repeal. A written amendment narrows the rule and makes it stronger, beca
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Is your agent's grep tool a shell command?
When you give an LLM a tool, you hand it a real function and let it choose the arguments. Those tools are everything your agent can do to a real system: read a file, write to your database, send an email, run a shell command, delete data. They are your risk surface, and most teams have never looked at it in one place. So we did. We ran scan across a batch of popular open-source TypeScript AI agents. A few of the things it found, none of them exotic: A coding agent whose grep and glob tools, which sound read-only, actually shell out through execSync . Its bash tool passes a model-chosen string straight to spawn . Arbitrary command execution, behind three innocuous names. A query tool that fires an HTTP DELETE . A "query" that deletes. A calculator that runs eval on whatever the model types, in a widely-used agent framework. Arbitrary code execution behind the friendliest name in the box. A send-email tool that posts to an array of recipients, so the model chooses who gets mailed. The single most common finding, in almost every agent we scanned: a fetch tool aimed at whatever URL the model supplies. That is a door to your internal network (an SSRF surface). Notice the pattern. The dangerous tools are not named dangerous . They are named grep , query , calculator . A name is a claim. The code is the evidence. See your own agent's tools scan reads that evidence. One command, no install, no signup, no code change: npx @agentx-core/scan . It lists every tool the model can call and ranks each one by what it can do, from read-only up to destructive: 🔍 AGENTX SCAN (TypeScript · 3 files · 5 tools) =========================================================================== RISK TOOL GUARD WHY ---- ---- ------ ------------------------ high calculator yes calls `eval` lib/tools/compute.ts:4 high grep yes calls `execSync` lib/tools/system.ts:8 med sendEmail yes calls `mailer.send` lib/tools/io.ts:5 med fetchUrl yes outbound req to agent-controlled host (SSRF) lib/tools/io.ts:11 2
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