Engineering Blog
Technical insights on Optimizely CMS, Commerce, and the modern .NET ecosystem.
How We Built Google OAuth Authentication Between a Next.js Frontend and a Headless CMS Backend
Overview When building a modern content platform, one of the most interesting architectural challenges is connecting a Next.js frontend to a headless CMS backend with a smooth, secure authenticatio...
True Multi-Agent vs Single-Agent With Personas: Which One Actually Gives Better Output?
If You're Using an AI Tool That Claims "Multi-Agent" — Read This First If you're using an AI coding tool like Antigravity, Cursor, or any tool that advertises "multi-agent", there's one important q...
How We Wired an E-Commerce Platform to SAP (and What We Learned the Hard Way)
The Problem Statement If you've ever worked on an e-commerce platform that needs to talk to SAP, you already know the fun: two worlds with completely different ideas about data, timing, and what co...
Outcome-Based Pricing in the Age of AI: Promise, Problems, and the Hybrid Reality
The Shift Nobody Planned For For decades, software pricing followed a simple logic: count the seats, multiply by a monthly fee, collect recurring revenue. It worked because the cost of delivering s...
MCP Deployment Strategies: Stdio vs. HTTP SSE vs. WebSocket
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as the standard for connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to external data sources and tools. As architects and developers, choosing the right...
Why the World Needed MCP When We Already Had APIs
A Question Worth Asking APIs have been around for decades. REST, GraphQL, gRPC — we have mature, well-documented standards for connecting software systems. So when MCP (Model Context Protocol) appe...
What Is an AI Agent? From Chatbot to Autonomous Actor
The Question That Started It All A developer recently asked me: "Are Claude or Cursor considered AI Agents?" It's a deceptively simple question. The answer forced a deeper look at what "Agent" actu...
How I Built a Custom MCP Server for My Personal Blog — ginbok-web
From Idea to MCP: Connecting AI to My Blog A few weeks ago, I had a simple but ambitious idea: what if I could talk to my blog the same way I talk to an AI assistant? Not just read posts — but lis...
MCP Server for E-commerce: AI Agents as the New Ops Team
"The future of e-commerce management is shifting away from building more complex internal dashboards and moving toward creating standardized interfaces where AI agents can act as an intelligent, sc...
RAG & Vector DB: The Strategy Behind AI Knowledge Retrieval
"In the age of generative AI, the true competitive advantage isn't the model you use—it's how effectively you connect that model to your proprietary enterprise data without compromising security or...