Catalog entries in the Adopt ring of the Tekai technology radar.https://tekai.dev/enhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/cap-theorem/https://tekai.dev/catalog/cap-theorem/Proven theorem: a distributed data store can guarantee only two of three properties — Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance. Since partition tolerance is always required in practice, the true design trade-off is C vs. A during network partitions.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTdistributed-systemsconsistencyavailabilityarchitecturedatabasessoftware-engineering-principleshttps://tekai.dev/catalog/conways-law/https://tekai.dev/catalog/conways-law/Empirically supported organizational principle stating that software systems inevitably mirror the communication structure of the teams that build them; the inverse maneuver (restructuring teams to achieve a target architecture) is widely used in microservices and platform engineering.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTorganizational-designarchitectureteam-topologymicroservicessoftware-engineering-principlesdistributed-systemshttps://tekai.dev/catalog/software-engineering-principles/https://tekai.dev/catalog/software-engineering-principles/The canonical collection of named software engineering laws, heuristics, and principles — from Brooks's Law and Conway's Law to YAGNI, DRY, Hyrum's Law, and the Testing Pyramid — that form the shared vocabulary of software practitioners for reasoning about complexity, quality, and team dynamics.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoftware-engineeringmethodologyarchitectureteamsqualitydesignprinciplesdistributed-systemsengineering-managementhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/technical-debt/https://tekai.dev/catalog/technical-debt/Ward Cunningham's 1992 financial metaphor for the cost accumulated when expedient code shortcuts trade short-term delivery speed for long-term maintenance burden; the concept has expanded into a multi-dimensional framework covering code, design, architecture, test, and documentation debt.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoftware-qualityrefactoringarchitectureengineering-managementsoftware-engineering-principlesmaintainabilityhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/huggingface-transformers/https://tekai.dev/catalog/huggingface-transformers/The de facto standard Python library for accessing, fine-tuning, and deploying transformer-based models across NLP, vision, audio, and multimodal tasks, with unified APIs for 500,000+ pretrained models on Hugging Face Hub.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTtransformersnlpllmfine-tuningpytorchhuggingfacepretrained-modelsmachine-learningmodel-hubhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/tanstack-query/https://tekai.dev/catalog/tanstack-query/Async server-state management and data-fetching library for React (and other frameworks) with automatic caching, background refresh, and optimistic updates; ~12–16M weekly npm downloads.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreactdata-fetchingserver-statecachingtypescriptasync-statereact-hookshttps://tekai.dev/catalog/tanstack-table/https://tekai.dev/catalog/tanstack-table/Headless, framework-agnostic table and data-grid library providing sorting, filtering, pagination, and virtualization logic without any UI — you own the markup and styles.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreacttabledata-gridheadless-uitypescriptvirtualizationsortingfilteringhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/aider/https://tekai.dev/catalog/aider/Open-source terminal AI coding agent that uses a tree-sitter repo map and multi-mode diff engine to pair-program with LLMs across 100+ languages, with first-class git integration and support for virtually every LLM provider.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-coding-agentcligitpair-programmingmulti-modelrepomaptree-sitterdiffpythonlitellmterminalhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/agent-skills-specification/https://tekai.dev/catalog/agent-skills-specification/An open standard for packaging reusable procedural knowledge as markdown files that AI coding agents can discover, load, and use across 30+ tools.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsopen-standardcoding-agentsdeveloper-toolsanthropicspecificationcontext-engineeringhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/anthropic/https://tekai.dev/catalog/anthropic/AI safety company behind the Claude model family — including Claude Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, and the restricted Claude Mythos Preview — with $380B valuation, $14B ARR, and Constitutional AI as its core alignment technique.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTllmai-safetyfrontier-modelsclaudeconstitutional-aiapihttps://tekai.dev/catalog/google-deepmind/https://tekai.dev/catalog/google-deepmind/Google's combined AI research and products division behind the Gemini model family, with Gemini 3.1 Pro ranking #1 on 12 of 18 tracked benchmarks in 2026 and 1M-token context windows available via Gemini API and Google Cloud Vertex AI.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTllmfrontier-modelsgeminimultimodalapigoogle-cloudlong-contextreasoning-modelshttps://tekai.dev/catalog/mechanical-sympathy/https://tekai.dev/catalog/mechanical-sympathy/A software design philosophy, coined by Martin Thompson from motorsport, that aligns program behavior with underlying hardware constraints — CPU cache hierarchy, memory access patterns, and concurrency primitives — to achieve lower latency and higher throughput without additional hardware.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTperformancelow-latencycpu-cachehardware-awareconcurrencyfalse-sharingmemory-accesshigh-throughputhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/openai/https://tekai.dev/catalog/openai/Frontier AI lab behind GPT-5, o3, DALL-E, Sora, and Whisper, operating ChatGPT (the world's leading AI consumer product) alongside an enterprise API platform with $20B+ annual revenue and an $852B valuation.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTllmfrontier-modelsgptmultimodalapichatgptreasoning-modelshttps://tekai.dev/catalog/tree-sitter/https://tekai.dev/catalog/tree-sitter/Incremental parser generator and parsing library that builds concrete syntax trees for source files and updates them efficiently on edit, supporting 100+ programming languages and used by Neovim, GitHub, and AI coding tools.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTparsingastincremental-parsingcode-analysissyntax-highlightingstatic-analysiswasmhttps://tekai.dev/catalog/retrieval-augmented-generation/https://tekai.dev/catalog/retrieval-augmented-generation/An LLM inference pattern that injects relevant documents retrieved from an external corpus into the model's context at query time, grounding responses in up-to-date or domain-specific information without retraining.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTragllmknowledge-retrievalvector-searchembeddingsknowledge-basegroundinghttps://tekai.dev/catalog/vllm/https://tekai.dev/catalog/vllm/High-throughput open-source LLM inference and serving engine using PagedAttention for memory-efficient KV cache management, achieving 2–24x throughput improvements over naive serving approaches.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTllminferenceservingpagedattentiongpupythonopen-source