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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.

May 20, 2026

Infrastructure

What is distributed tracing?

An interactive guide to debugging real backend issues

May 4, 2026

Tutorial

Sentry + Encore

Error tracking for your backend services

Apr 29, 2026

Tutorial

Temporal + Encore

Durable workflows with automatic infrastructure

Apr 29, 2026

Development

What is Pub/Sub?

An interactive study of publish/subscribe messaging

Apr 24, 2026

Development

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.

Apr 8, 2026

Tutorial

Ory + Encore

Open-source identity with automatic infrastructure

Mar 25, 2026

AI

What Happens When You Give an AI Agent Your AWS Credentials

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

Mar 25, 2026

AI

Encore, MCP, and AI agents

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

Mar 19, 2026

AI

Tech Strategy

What is Infrastructure from Code?

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

Mar 17, 2026

Development

Type-Safe Caching in Encore.ts

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

Mar 11, 2026

AI

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.

Mar 9, 2026