Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on developer tools, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, software supply chains, and infrastructure trends. Articles under this byline help technical readers understand how tooling changes affect software delivery, security, cost, and reliability.

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Developer Tools
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All 208 Developer Tools 73 AI & ML 53 Cybersecurity 42 Cloud & Infra 34 Cyber Threat Intel 3 Consumer Tech 2 Science 1

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AI & ML

How to Give an Agent Search Over Your Own Documents

Seventy-eight lines with no dependencies join a local embedding model, a vector store and MCP. The interesting part is not the wiring — it is what the agent is told when a piece of it goes down.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Developer Tools

How to Write an MCP Server Without a Framework

MCP is JSON-RPC over a pipe. Sixty-two lines of dependency-free code, driven directly with the protocol — the handshake, a tool call, the three ways it says no, and the two things it must ignore. Written against revision 2025-06-18, which the July 2026 revision has since superseded.

21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

How to Generate Embeddings Locally

A 46 MB model, running on your laptop, turns text into positions in space. The demonstration: a query whose only content word appears in none of the documents, where keyword search returns zero results and vector search returns the right two.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

Singapore Will Hold Infrastructure Boards Accountable for Recovery, Not Just Defence

CSA said on 22 July that the rewritten Code of Practice will require critical-infrastructure boards to maintain an annually reviewed cyber resilience framework and Cyber Trust Mark Level 5. A separate cloud code follows this half, with companion guides written alongside AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

21 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
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AI & ML

How to Self-Host Qdrant in Docker

Every retrieval tutorial says "point it at your vector database" and none of them tells you how to run one. One container, one volume, a working search — and the default that makes 12,003 points report zero indexed vectors.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Ransomware Group Posted Its Demands On The Hospital's Own Facebook Page

AnMed closed 83 medical offices after a July attack, with ten still shut a week later. On 11 August the attackers took their pressure campaign to the health system's own channel, which is a rung of the extortion ladder nobody had used.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Cloud & Infra

What One Server Actually Runs

This publication — the live site, a full staging copy, an error tracker and its own CI runner — is four cores and 16 GB of memory, 42% used. What that actually holds, where the disk really goes, and the cases where one box is the wrong answer.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Cloud & Infra

How Much of the Internet the Big Clouds Hold

Add up Amazon's published address file and you get 188 million. The real figure is 101,829,252, because the same block is listed once per service and prefixes nest inside each other. What the big providers actually hold, computed properly.

21 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Cloud & Infra

How Far Away the Cloud Is From Singapore

A dropdown asks which region, and most people pick the familiar name. Measured from a server in Singapore, the closest region answers in 5.8 milliseconds and Sao Paulo takes 365.6 — sixty-three times as long for the same handshake.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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AI & ML

Boston Dynamics Adds Google DeepMind Reasoning To Its Inspection Robots

The Spot quadruped and the Orbit inspection platform are getting Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, aimed at spatial reasoning and autonomous decisions in industrial plants. Walking was the easy half; deciding what matters on arrival is the part that has kept a person in the loop.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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