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A room for people who ship things.

Architecture debates, streaming war stories, AI-agent experiments, Cortex contributor chat, event announcements. Low noise, real conversation.

  • Dedicated channels for Sophon, Dataroot, and Cortex
  • Show-and-tell for what you're building
  • Direct line to maintainers and the Buildersoft team
  • Be kind. Ship things. Share what you learn.
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arditjust now

just shipped a Cortex sink for ClickHouse — PR up

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mirajust now

nice! any tips on backpressure with the ClickHouse client?

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dritanjust now

we batched at 5k events, p99 dropped to 6ms

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reminder: Inside 2026 CFP opens next week · Sophon focus

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Streaming at scale in .NET
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Building a Sophon agent from zero
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Dataroot and the death of the dashboard
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Engineering essays on event-driven systems, streaming, AI agents, and architecture modernization — lessons pulled from real client work, not thought-leadership theatre. Read the blog →
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Learn from the stage.

Talks from Buildersoft Inside and the Andy X Summit — deep dives on architecture, streaming systems, and autonomous AI. The 2026 edition is focused on Sophon; 2027 is already on the calendar. See events →
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Structured programs across AI & Machine Learning, Architecture Modernization, and Core Architecture. Hands-on, practitioner-led, shaped to your team's context.
Contribute

From idea to merged PR in three steps.

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Find an issue

Browse good first issue on the Cortex repo or ask in #contributors on Discord.

02

Open a PR

Fork, branch, commit, push. Our CONTRIBUTING.md covers style, tests, and the review rubric.

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Ship it

A maintainer reviews within a few days. Once merged, you're part of the contributor list — and welcome to review other PRs.

Events

See you at Buildersoft Inside.

Our annual conference for people building the real thing. In 2026 the theme is Sophon and autonomous AI; 2027 is already on the calendar.

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Buildersoft Inside 2026

Sophon · AI Agents

Our flagship conference returns with a full-day track on autonomous agents, multi-channel assistants, and production AI. CFP details coming soon on the events page.

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Buildersoft Inside 2027

To be announced

Planning already underway. Follow the Discord or the events page for announcements, CFP, and early-bird registration.

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Join the Discord, star a repo, drop into an event — whatever feels right. We're glad you're here.