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Weekly engineering digest: DefenseTech systems, Google AI agent evaluation, Meta expert AI agents, and Allegro search relevance evaluation.

Weekly tech digest featuring a practical guide to 17 prioritization frameworks with formulas and examples, Netflix's brutally honest Service Topology production postmortem, Uber's SPIRE-backed AI agent identity framework with full actor chain propagation, and Uber's artifact storage modernization cutting 5PB/month egress by 99% with a custom validation proxy.

Prepare for your next .NET interview with 800+ interview questions and answers covering C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL, NoSQL, microservices, distributed systems, testing, AI, Agile, desktop and mobile development. For developers, senior engineers, architects and tech leads.

In this article, we review AI, LLM, prompting, .NET AI integration, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, MCP, RAG, resilience, testing, observability, security, and AI coding tools for .NET engineers.

In this article, we explain what a Large Language Model is, how LLMs work, what they excel at, where they fall short, and how they fit into real software products.

This week: Uber shows how AI agents can automate design system documentation via MCP and how real-time batching solves hot-key payment bottlenecks at scale. Airbnb shares a transformer-based model for recommending travel destinations to exploratory users. And Pinterest details how unified context-intent embeddings power their Analytics Agent — now the most widely adopted internal agent at the company.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

This week: .NET Microservices and distributed systems interview prep, Netflix’s AI graph search evolution, LinkedIn’s job ingestion system at scale, and Dropbox’s AI platform insights.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

Weekend Reading is a Digest where we share a selection of the most interesting tech articles from different companies found during the week.