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ETag is a cache validator on reads and a concurrency guard on writes — the specification requires different comparison rules for each. Built end to end in PHP and Go, and proven with two real writers racing for one resource.
Dapr's building blocks are portable; the guarantees underneath them are not. The same requests against two stores Dapr calls Stable — one failure is refused, the other is silent. With a runnable demo.
Seven published incidents, two predating LLMs, collapse into four shapes: the label became the goal, the gate never held, validation stayed inside, and the recovery was never tested.
AI can do more than I let it do. A practitioner's boundary list — the places I deliberately don't use it, the two questions that draw the line, and where I have already changed my mind.
Three production concerns that look like separate problems and are not. A working Laravel 13 skeleton with version-aware serializers, snapshot invalidation, and idempotent projection replay — all backed by tests.
An LLM agent is a commitment, not a category. Here's the decision framework, the failure modes, the three-layer reliability model, and the hybrid architecture that actually works in production.
When your consumer crashes after processing but before acknowledging, the broker redelivers — and your system processes the same message twice. The Inbox pattern is the answer to safe, idempotent message consumption.
When your database transaction commits but the message never reaches the queue, the Outbox pattern is the answer. A practical guide to reliable event publishing without dual-writes.