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Are TypeScript backend frameworks ready for AI agents?

We set out to run one benchmark across five TypeScript backend frameworks. Reading the diffs sent us into two more runs, and the picture changed each time.

The Last Year of Terraform

Terraform solved the right problem. AI just made it the wrong answer.

Queueing

An interactive study of queueing strategies

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Are TypeScript backend frameworks ready for AI agents?

We set out to run one benchmark across five TypeScript backend frameworks. Reading the diffs sent us into two more runs, and the picture changed each time.

What is distributed tracing?

An interactive guide to debugging real backend issues

Sentry + Encore

Error tracking for your backend services

Temporal + Encore

Durable workflows with automatic infrastructure

What is Pub/Sub?

An interactive study of publish/subscribe messaging

What We Learned Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript

67,000 lines of Rust, two years, and the non-obvious problems of making Node.js and Rust work together in the same process.

Ory + Encore

Open-source identity with automatic infrastructure

What Happens When You Give an AI Agent Your AWS Credentials

The interface you give AI agents determines what they can break.

Encore, MCP, and AI agents

How to give your agent full context over your running application.

What is Infrastructure from Code?

How it works, why AI made it urgent, and what the trade-offs are.

Type-Safe Caching in Encore.ts

What goes wrong with stringly-typed Redis, and what changes when the cache boundary is typed.

You probably don't need a vector database

What vectors, similarity search, and RAG actually do under the hood, and why PostgreSQL handles most of it.