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March 30, 2026

Building a Firecracker VM Orchestrator in Go - Part 2: API Server

Designing a transport-agnostic API server for Flames, how steering AI on architecture decisions around service layers, idempotency, and persistence tiers shaped the final design.

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March 28, 2026

Building a Firecracker VM Orchestrator in Go - Part 1: Provider Interfaces

The first post in a series documenting the build-out of Flames, an open-source Firecracker + Jailer VM orchestrator, using Spec-Driven Development with ContextPin and Claude Code.

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March 24, 2026

What is Spec-Driven Development?

AI can handle scope. The real challenge is how that scope is defined, structured, and kept aligned as the project grows. That is where spec-driven development comes in.

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