MCP servers are becoming real infrastructure. They need to be monitored like real infrastructure. Here's why, and how Vigil fits in.

LLM applications fail in ways that traditional monitoring never catches. Here's what to watch, what to ignore, and how to build observability that actually helps.

Webhooks feel simple until they don't. Here's a realistic look at how webhook delivery fails, why you almost never find out, and what to do about it.

Prompt engineering can get you structured data from an LLM. So can a dedicated extraction pipeline. Understanding the difference determines whether your system is reliable or fragile.

API-first is one of the most overused phrases in developer tooling. Here's what it actually requires, how to tell when it's real, and why it matters for how you build.

Extracting a field or two from a document is easy. Building a reliable extraction pipeline that handles volume, variance, and schema evolution is a different problem.