Michael Mifsud
Projects
Passing Tests Are Not Proven Behaviour: The Composition Blind Spot in AI-Assisted Engineering2026-07-16A reflective look at how robust unit coverage and green integration tests can fail to prevent production defects, and why we need to audit feature specifications for composition smells.
LangChain on Steroids with BDD: When a Feature Becomes Executable Evidence2026-07-14How pytest-bdd, direct unit tests and reusable governance agents turned behavioural specifications into verified engineering evidence.
Declarative AI Pipelines: Architecting a Decoupled, YAML-Driven LLM Orchestration Engine2026-07-13How we eliminated brittle, hard-coded LLM chaining by building an enterprise Python orchestration engine that choreographs utility tools and prompt templates via declarative YAML configurations.
AI-Driven SRE & Chaos Tracing: Designing an Autonomous Failure Lab with OpenTelemetry2026-07-12An architectural deep-dive into an automated SRE sandboxing framework combining chaos engineering injection, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, and an LLM-powered AI Advisor for autonomous root-cause analysis.
- AI-Driven SRE & Chaos Tracing: Designing an Autonomous Failure Lab with OpenTelemetry2026-07-12
An architectural deep-dive into an automated SRE sandboxing framework combining chaos engineering injection, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, and an LLM-powered AI Advisor for autonomous root-cause analysis.
Forensic Token Observability: Designing a Declarative Prometheus Telemetry Gateway for Autonomous AI Agents2026-07-12How I built a configuration-driven FastAPI telemetry sentinel to track, audit, and prevent token-bleeding, stuck thinking loops, and operational toil in multi-model agentic environments using OTel semantic conventions.
Designing a Self-Healing Payment Pipeline: An Event-Driven Go & Kafka Proof of Concept2026-07-12An in-depth architectural analysis of an event-driven payment processing pipeline built with Go, Apache Kafka, and Docker, focusing on thread-safe asynchronous ingestion, resilient self-healing orchestration, and automated integration testing.
Designing for Operational Clarity: A Reusable Terraform and AWS Gateway2026-07-12An architectural exploration of a reusable AWS Lightsail and Terraform telemetry gateway optimized for stateless CI/CD pipelines, idempotent SSL provisioning, and autonomous error recovery.