https://thesoftwarelens.com/ The Software Lens. Frameworks and essays on agentic systems, SaaC, AIM and the architecture of the AI era, plus video episodes. en-US Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:10:22 +0000 https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-knowledge-store-pattern/https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-knowledge-store-pattern/How to design AI agent memory: vector search, a graph and a record store, with the services to use on AWS (S3 Vectors, Neptune), Azure and Google Cloud.Foundations https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-anatomy-of-a-capability-and-the-protocol-shift/https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-anatomy-of-a-capability-and-the-protocol-shift/What is a capability, formally? Four orthogonal parts: Manifest, Surface, Kernel, Guardrails. And the protocol underneath is shifting from REST to MCP. Here is why.SaaC https://thesoftwarelens.com/from-saas-to-saac/https://thesoftwarelens.com/from-saas-to-saac/Per-seat pricing, UI-first product, integrate-once contracts — every SaaS assumption breaks when the primary caller is an agent. The delivery model that replaces it is SaaC.SaaC https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-four-moats-defensibility-in-an-agentic-economy/https://thesoftwarelens.com/the-four-moats-defensibility-in-an-agentic-economy/If every company can buy the same AI models, where is the moat? Four places it lives in an agentic economy, and why each one compounds.Agentic Economy https://thesoftwarelens.com/integration-patterns-agentic-era-part-2-agent-native-architecture/https://thesoftwarelens.com/integration-patterns-agentic-era-part-2-agent-native-architecture/Part 2: the six integration pitfalls of the first ninety days, higher education and fintech, and the five-layer agent-native integration architecture to build to.Integration https://thesoftwarelens.com/integration-patterns-agentic-era-part-1-why-eai-soa-and-apis-break/https://thesoftwarelens.com/integration-patterns-agentic-era-part-1-why-eai-soa-and-apis-break/EAI, SOA and API integration assumed a human caller. Part 1: five problems AI agents expose, and which integration patterns survive, change jobs or die.Integration https://thesoftwarelens.com/okl-and-the-organizational-ai-brain/https://thesoftwarelens.com/okl-and-the-organizational-ai-brain/OKL — Objectives, Knowledge, Learning — is the framework that makes an organization's learning rate measurable. Combined with the Organizational AI Brain, it becomes a runtime, not a slide.Foundations https://thesoftwarelens.com/microservices-break-and-aim-fits/https://thesoftwarelens.com/microservices-break-and-aim-fits/Microservices were shaped for human-developer callers. Under autonomous agents, the contract breaks at four specific seams. AIM — Agents, Intelligence, MCP — is the three-layer pattern that fits.AIM