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  "updated": "2026-09-14",
  "scope": "Forward deployed engineering: global careers and production practice",
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      "id": "deployco",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company",
      "published": "2026-05-11",
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/openai-launches-the-deployment-company/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "alliance",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Introducing Frontier Alliances",
      "published": "2026-02-23",
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/frontier-alliance-partners/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-venture",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Building a new enterprise AI services company",
      "published": "2026-05-04",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/enterprise-ai-services-company",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "aws-fde",
      "publisher": "AWS",
      "title": "AWS GovCloud (US) Newsletter, July 1–15, 2026",
      "published": "2026-07",
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/newsletter/newsletter-issue-04/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "oai-fde",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — SF",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-%28fde%29-sf-san-francisco/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "oai-fdse",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer — SF",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/forward-deployed-software-engineer-sf-san-francisco/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "oai-health",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare — SF",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-%28fde%29-healthcare-sf-san-francisco/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "deployco-job",
      "publisher": "OpenAI Deployment Company",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — US, New York",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://deploy.co/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-us-new-york",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-job",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — NYC / SF / Seattle",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5302966008",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
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    {
      "id": "anthropic-munich",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Munich",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5391016008",
      "evidence": "Employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read via employer Greenhouse API, 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "databricks-job",
      "publisher": "Databricks",
      "title": "AI Engineer — FDE, United States",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8546367002",
      "evidence": "Employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read via employer Greenhouse API, 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "palantir-ny",
      "publisher": "Palantir",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer — New York",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/dab396d4-2f14-4796-aac0-0d82883dccf0",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "palantir-grad",
      "publisher": "Palantir",
      "title": "FDSE, New Grad — Commercial, New York",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/2e6b0ac8-83e9-4be5-a3aa-cf319f751728",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "palantir-london",
      "publisher": "Palantir",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer — London",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/5168e8fd-fec1-4fea-b7a1-81bdaea65850",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "sierra-interview",
      "publisher": "Sierra · Vijay Iyengar, Arya Asemanfar, Angie Wang",
      "title": "The AI-native interview",
      "published": "2026-04-22",
      "url": "https://sierra.ai/blog/the-ai-native-interview",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-policy",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage",
      "published": "2025-07-10",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "evals",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Demystifying evals for AI agents",
      "published": "2026-01-09",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "context",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Effective context engineering for AI agents",
      "published": "2025-09-29",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "agents",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Building effective agents",
      "published": "2024-12-19",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "mcp",
      "publisher": "MCP · David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky",
      "title": "The 2026-07-28 Specification",
      "published": "2026-07-28",
      "url": "https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "mcp-compat",
      "publisher": "Model Context Protocol",
      "title": "C# SDK Versioning",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://csharp.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/v2/versioning.html",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "dol",
      "publisher": "US Department of Labor",
      "title": "H-1B Workers",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers/h1b",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "bloomberry",
      "publisher": "Henley Wing Chiu · Bloomberry",
      "title": "What I learned analyzing 1K forward deployed engineer jobs",
      "published": "2026-01-25",
      "url": "https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-1000-forward-deployed-engineer-jobs-what-i-learned/",
      "evidence": "Original analysis",
      "access_note": "Originally published 18 November 2025; one analyst, 1,000 postings and 100 profiles"
    },
    {
      "id": "a16z",
      "publisher": "Marc Andrusko · Andreessen Horowitz",
      "title": "The Palantirization of everything",
      "published": "2026-01-16",
      "url": "https://a16z.com/the-palantirization-of-everything/",
      "evidence": "Investor analysis",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "palantir-evals",
      "publisher": "Palantir Developer Community · PCL team guide",
      "title": "Writing Effective Evals",
      "published": "2025",
      "url": "https://community.palantir.com/t/guide-writing-effective-evals/2856",
      "evidence": "Practitioner guidance",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "palantir-ontology",
      "publisher": "Palantir",
      "title": "Ontology design: Validation",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/ontology/ontology-design-validation",
      "evidence": "Primary source",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "coder",
      "publisher": "Coder",
      "title": "Senior Partner Deployed Engineer",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Coder/ccb0803c-4443-481b-85ec-84045e2ed132",
      "evidence": "Indexed employer posting",
      "access_note": "Search-index text retrieved 14 September 2026; direct page requires JavaScript. Opening status not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "techtorch",
      "publisher": "TechTorch",
      "title": "Forward Deployed AI Engineer",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/techtorch/878eaa7b-6ec8-42f4-974e-fde68db3582d",
      "evidence": "Indexed employer posting",
      "access_note": "Search-index text retrieved 14 September 2026; direct page requires JavaScript. Opening status not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "blp",
      "publisher": "BLP Digital",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blp-digital/95e7e3a9-8f14-428b-9d66-afa5d36c8d43/",
      "evidence": "Indexed employer posting",
      "access_note": "Search-index text retrieved 14 September 2026; direct page requires JavaScript. Opening status not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "elevenlabs-pl",
      "publisher": "ElevenLabs",
      "title": "Deployment Strategist Lead — Poland",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elevenlabs/c85b00d2-e72a-4c48-ae1b-3e0ea8d90499",
      "evidence": "Indexed employer posting",
      "access_note": "Search-index text retrieved 14 September 2026; direct page requires JavaScript. Opening status not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "oai-interview",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Interview guide",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/interview-guide/",
      "evidence": "Employer guidance",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; general guide, not a guaranteed FDE loop"
    },
    {
      "id": "owasp-agency",
      "publisher": "OWASP Gen AI Security Project",
      "title": "LLM06:2025 Excessive Agency",
      "published": "2025",
      "url": "https://genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm062025-excessive-agency/",
      "evidence": "Practitioner guidance",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "owasp-injection",
      "publisher": "OWASP Gen AI Security Project",
      "title": "LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection",
      "published": "2025",
      "url": "https://genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm01-prompt-injection/",
      "evidence": "Practitioner guidance",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ganesh",
      "publisher": "Vinoo Ganesh",
      "title": "The Definitive Guide to Forward Deployed Engineering",
      "published": "2026-02-05",
      "url": "https://vinoo.io/writing/2026-02-05-forward-deployed-engineering/",
      "evidence": "Practitioner guidance",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; Ganesh is a first-person account, not population evidence"
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-python",
      "publisher": "Harvard",
      "title": "CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Python",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-git",
      "publisher": "Scott Chacon & Ben Straub",
      "title": "Pro Git",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-web",
      "publisher": "MDN",
      "title": "Learn web development",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-fullstack",
      "publisher": "University of Helsinki",
      "title": "Full Stack Open",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://fullstackopen.com/en/part0/general_info/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-sql",
      "publisher": "PostgreSQL",
      "title": "PostgreSQL tutorial",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial.html",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-api",
      "publisher": "FastAPI",
      "title": "FastAPI tutorial",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-api-tests",
      "publisher": "FastAPI",
      "title": "Testing FastAPI applications",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/testing/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-discovery",
      "publisher": "Government Digital Service",
      "title": "Using in-depth interviews",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/user-research/using-in-depth-interviews",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-hf",
      "publisher": "Hugging Face",
      "title": "AI Agents Course",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/en/unit0/introduction",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-docker",
      "publisher": "Docker",
      "title": "Get started with Docker",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://docs.docker.com/get-started/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-otel",
      "publisher": "OpenTelemetry",
      "title": "Observability signals",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-sre",
      "publisher": "Google",
      "title": "The Site Reliability Workbook",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://sre.google/workbook/table-of-contents/",
      "evidence": "Primary learning resource",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; curriculum selection is editorial."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-missing-semester",
      "publisher": "MIT CSAIL",
      "title": "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026)",
      "published": "2026",
      "url": "https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official course home and 2026 lecture index. The current course is the 2026 offering; older annual archives remain available."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-hamel-evals-faq",
      "publisher": "Hamel's Blog",
      "title": "AI Evals: Everything You Need to Know",
      "published": "2025-05-28; updated 2026-09-01",
      "url": "https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Full public FAQ read, including publication date, 1 Sep 2026 modification date, error analysis, judge validation and production sections."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-cursor-fde-interview",
      "publisher": "Latent Space",
      "title": "How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise",
      "published": "2026-07-01",
      "url": "https://www.latent.space/p/cursor-forward-deployed-engineers",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original interview read on publisher site; guest role, author and publication date verified. Company claims kept attributed rather than generalized."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-chip-huyen-agents",
      "publisher": "Chip Huyen's Blog",
      "title": "Agents",
      "published": "2025-01-07",
      "url": "https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/07/agents.html",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original author article read, including date, table of contents, book-adaptation statement and experimental-framework caveat."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-ai-engineering-book",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly",
      "title": "AI Engineering",
      "published": "2024-12 (digital edition)",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-engineering/9781098166298/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the publisher overview, contents, and metadata. O’Reilly lists December 2024 for this digital title; this is the date recorded here. Paid full text was not accessed."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-designing-ml-systems",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly",
      "title": "Designing Machine Learning Systems",
      "published": "2022-05",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learning/9781098107956/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read O’Reilly's official title metadata and overview. The May 2022 scope is complementary to AI Engineering, not a replacement for its foundation-model focus. Description is based on public publisher/author material, not a full-text review."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-hands-on-llms-book",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly",
      "title": "Hands-On Large Language Models",
      "published": "2024-09",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-large-language/9781098150952/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the publisher metadata and the official https://github.com/HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models README/contents. Did not access paid full text or execute notebooks."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-hugging-face-agents",
      "publisher": "Hugging Face",
      "title": "Hugging Face Agents Course",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official introduction, syllabus, prerequisites and certification terms. It describes a living course and requires a free Hugging Face account for Hub/Spaces activities."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-full-stack-llm-bootcamp",
      "publisher": "The Full Stack",
      "title": "LLM Bootcamp",
      "published": "2023",
      "url": "https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/llm-bootcamp/spring-2023/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official syllabus, lecture descriptions and explicit free-access statement; did not watch every lecture or run the historical demo."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-mcp-specification",
      "publisher": "Model Context Protocol",
      "title": "Model Context Protocol specification — 2026-07-28",
      "published": "2026-07-28",
      "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the versioned specification overview, base protocol, features, extensions and security principles; checked official July release information. This entry does not claim every SDK implements every extension."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-lenny-evals-podcast",
      "publisher": "Lenny's Podcast",
      "title": "Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders",
      "published": "2025-09-25",
      "url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-ai-evals-are-the-hottest-new-skill",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original episode page, public description and timestamped chapters read; official outbound YouTube link verified. Paid transcript was not accessed."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-linkedin-becoming-fde",
      "publisher": "LinkedIn Learning",
      "title": "Becoming a Forward Deployed Engineer: Bridging AI Products and Customer Outcomes",
      "published": "2026-08-10",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/learning/becoming-a-forward-deployed-engineer-bridging-ai-products-and-customer-outcomes",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official course landing page and full public syllabus read; instructor, intermediate level, 51-minute duration, release date and locked lessons verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-staff-engineer",
      "publisher": "Will Larson / StaffEng",
      "title": "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track",
      "published": "2021",
      "url": "https://staffeng.com/book/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official book page read, including free-content FAQ, guide links, interview basis and contextual limitation; prices intentionally omitted."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-pragmatic-engineer",
      "publisher": "The Pragmatic Engineer",
      "title": "The Pragmatic Engineer",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Current official about page read: author, editorial scope, free versus paid access, schedule and subscription conditions verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-azure-adapter",
      "publisher": "Microsoft Learn",
      "title": "Anti-Corruption Layer pattern",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/anti-corruption-layer",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Primary engineering article read; canonical AWS PDF used where the newer landing page did not expose the article text."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-cmu-database-systems-2026",
      "publisher": "Carnegie Mellon University",
      "title": "CMU 15-445/645: Intro to Database Systems (Spring 2026)",
      "published": "2026",
      "url": "https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2026/schedule.html",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read Spring 2026 home, complete schedule (updated April 27), and syllabus. Chosen over the in-progress Fall 2026 offering; video destinations are linked but playback was not verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-data-engineering-zoomcamp",
      "publisher": "DataTalks.Club",
      "title": "Data Engineering Zoomcamp",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the maintainers' current repository README, prerequisites, access table, and syllabus. It advertises January 2027 as the next cohort; live cohort means coordinated deadlines, not live lectures."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-microsoft-rag-design",
      "publisher": "Microsoft Learn",
      "title": "Design and develop a RAG solution",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/ai-ml/guide/rag/rag-solution-design-and-evaluation-guide",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the primary architecture introduction, design phases, evaluation recommendations and update date of 30 Jun 2026. Did not read every linked phase article."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-ddia-second-edition",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly",
      "title": "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition",
      "published": "2026-02",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781098119058/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the publisher's second-edition page and contents: February 2026, Kleppmann and Riccomini. The older dataintensive.net marketing page still describes the earlier author/version. Description is based on public publisher/author material, not a full-text review."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-fundamentals-data-engineering",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly",
      "title": "Fundamentals of Data Engineering",
      "published": "2022-06",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the publisher overview and title page, which list June 2022 and the two authors. No claim that this is a newly updated edition. Description is based on public publisher/author material, not a full-text review."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-aws-idempotency",
      "publisher": "Amazon Builders’ Library",
      "title": "Making retries safe with idempotent APIs",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/making-retries-safe-with-idempotent-APIs/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Primary engineering article read; canonical AWS PDF used where the newer landing page did not expose the article text."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-strangler-fig",
      "publisher": "Martin Fowler",
      "title": "Strangler Fig",
      "published": "2024-08-22 (updated article)",
      "url": "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Primary engineering article read; canonical AWS PDF used where the newer landing page did not expose the article text."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-continuous-discovery-habits",
      "publisher": "Product Talk",
      "title": "Continuous Discovery Habits",
      "published": "2021-05-19",
      "url": "https://www.producttalk.org/continuous-discovery-habits/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Author's dated book launch page and current Product Talk course/book navigation read; book scope and purchase access verified. Paid book text was not reviewed."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-latent-space-box",
      "publisher": "Latent Space",
      "title": "Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box",
      "published": "2026-03-05",
      "url": "https://www.latent.space/p/box",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official episode page, chapter list and transcript sections on identity, permissions and enterprise data read; publication date and public access verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-getting-started-discovery",
      "publisher": "Product Talk",
      "title": "Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here's How",
      "published": "2023-08-02",
      "url": "https://www.producttalk.org/getting-started-with-discovery/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original author article and edited conference transcript read; publication date, topic and free video/text access verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-google-technical-writing",
      "publisher": "Google for Developers",
      "title": "Technical Writing Courses for Engineers",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/tech-writing",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read Google's course home, audience requirements, and delivery-format guidance. Self-study lessons remain valuable without a facilitated session; no scheduled class or certification is promised."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-mom-test",
      "publisher": "Rob Fitzpatrick",
      "title": "The Mom Test",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.momtestbook.com/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official author/book page read: scope, author, formats and purchase links verified; no publication date displayed and no price quoted. Practice is an editorial exercise. Description is based on public publisher/author material, not a full-text review."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-workshop-survival-guide",
      "publisher": "Rob Fitzpatrick and Devin Hunt",
      "title": "The Workshop Survival Guide",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://www.workshopsurvival.com/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official book page, authors section, complete table of contents and purchase link read; publication date not displayed. Full book not reviewed."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-agentic-engineering-patterns",
      "publisher": "Simon Willison's Weblog",
      "title": "Agentic Engineering Patterns",
      "published": "2026-02-23",
      "url": "https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Official guide index, introductory chapter and dated launch post read; current index includes testing, review and code-understanding patterns."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-cosmic-python",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly / Cosmic Python",
      "title": "Architecture Patterns with Python",
      "published": "2020-03",
      "url": "https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the authors' Cosmic Python home and preface plus O’Reilly metadata. Authors explicitly offer free authorized reading; publisher confirms March 2020."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-full-stack-open",
      "publisher": "University of Helsinki",
      "title": "Full Stack Open",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://fullstackopen.com/en/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official home and https://fullstackopen.com/en/part0/general_info/. The course now updates continuously rather than using yearly editions; prerequisites and free access are explicit."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-google-ml-crash-course",
      "publisher": "Google for Developers",
      "title": "Machine Learning Crash Course",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read Google's course modules and prerequisites page; prerequisite page updated 25 Aug 2025. The course is a concept foundation, not deep API training."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-software-engineering-google",
      "publisher": "O’Reilly / Google Abseil",
      "title": "Software Engineering at Google",
      "published": "2020-03",
      "url": "https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read Google's Abseil landing page and book preface. Google confirms March 2020 publication and authorized free HTML availability."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-design-web-apis-second",
      "publisher": "Manning",
      "title": "The Design of Web APIs, Second Edition",
      "published": "2025-06",
      "url": "https://www.manning.com/books/the-design-of-web-apis-second-edition",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read Manning's second-edition page, June 2025 metadata, reader prerequisites, chapter description, and linked code/exercise resources. Chosen over an older API-pattern catalog for its requirements-to-contract coverage. Description is based on public publisher/author material, not a full-text review."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-maven-ai-evals",
      "publisher": "Maven / Parlance Labs",
      "title": "AI Evals For Engineers & PMs",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://maven.com/parlance-labs/evals",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official public course syllabus and FAQ, which describe office hours, exercises, projects and lifetime material access. Full teaching content not accessed; no outcome guarantee or fixed fee asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-azure-circuit",
      "publisher": "Microsoft Learn",
      "title": "Circuit Breaker pattern",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/circuit-breaker",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Primary engineering article read; canonical AWS PDF used where the newer landing page did not expose the article text."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-openai-eval-practices",
      "publisher": "OpenAI API documentation",
      "title": "Evaluation best practices",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/evaluation-best-practices",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the current public guide body, including its explicit Evals deprecation notice, design process, architecture examples and grader caveats. Not a recommendation to adopt the retiring API."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-incident-review-practices",
      "publisher": "The Pragmatic Engineer",
      "title": "Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices",
      "published": "2021-10-19",
      "url": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/incident-review-best-practices",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original free article read, including date, author, survey limitations, incident sequence and distinction between free content and paid templates."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-made-with-ml",
      "publisher": "Made With ML / Anyscale",
      "title": "Made With ML",
      "published": "2023",
      "url": "https://madewithml.com/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Read the official course overview and setup lesson, including local no-GPU instructions and the 2023 citation. Did not validate every dependency or cloud workflow."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-se-radio-observability-migration",
      "publisher": "Software Engineering Radio / IEEE",
      "title": "SE Radio 706: Observability Tool Migration Techniques",
      "published": "2026-02-04",
      "url": "https://se-radio.net/2026/02/se-radio-706-yechezkel-chez-rabinovich-on-observability-tool-migration-techniques/",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Original IEEE episode page, show notes and transcript read; episode number, guest, host, date and OpenTelemetry/migration scope verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-openai-tokyo",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Tokyo",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-tokyo-tokyo-japan/",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Tokyo-based hybrid role; Japanese and English required; travel mainly within Japan."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-openai-sydney",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Sydney",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-sydney-sydney-australia/",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Sydney-based hybrid role; relocation assistance stated; travel up to 50%."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-openai-abu-dhabi",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Applied AI Engineer — Abu Dhabi",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/careers/applied-ai-engineer-abu-dhabi-uae/",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Adjacent applied-AI title with end-to-end customer deployment responsibilities; Abu Dhabi hybrid role."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-caylent-mexico",
      "publisher": "Caylent",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Mexico",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/caylent/jobs/5976575004",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Mexico role on the employer's Greenhouse board; company describes itself as remote across Canada, the US, and Latin America."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-handoff-brazil",
      "publisher": "Handoff",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — São Paulo",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://jobs.lever.co/handoff/5f222a16-e598-4b0c-b57b-8597e700bc61",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. São Paulo hybrid role; application states English interview, contractor status, and compensation in USD."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-telnyx-latam",
      "publisher": "Telnyx",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — LATAM",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/telnyx54/jobs/7776490003",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Remote LATAM role focused on Bogotá, Mexico City, and São Paulo; Spanish or Portuguese plus English and 10–30% travel stated."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-fourkites-india",
      "publisher": "FourKites",
      "title": "Senior Customer Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fourkites/jobs/7667786",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Chennai or remote-India role covering discovery, integration, agentic workflows, and production deployment."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-devrev-india",
      "publisher": "DevRev",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Implementation Partners",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/devrev/jobs/6174459004",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Bangalore role combining software engineering, systems integration, applied AI, and partner/customer delivery."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-razorpay-india",
      "publisher": "Razorpay",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Bengaluru",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/razorpaysoftwareprivatelimited/jobs/4723067005",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Bengaluru role describing production-grade engineering for strategic merchants; seniority and payments context are explicit."
    },
    {
      "id": "global-sand-kenya",
      "publisher": "Sand Technologies",
      "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer — Kenya",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sandtechholdingslimited/jobs/4836535101",
      "evidence": "Primary employer posting",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Permanently embedded public-sector health role; 12–24+ months and four client-site days weekly stated. The Kenya-titled posting contains one sentence referring to Malawi, so applicants should confirm the deployment country."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-booking-discovery",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Booking.com and OpenAI personalize travel at scale",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/booking-com/",
      "evidence": "Primary provider customer story with named customer executives",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used for the described traveller-journey gap and Trip Planner data connection; engagement claims are not quantified or independently audited."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-morgan-stanley-debrief",
      "publisher": "Morgan Stanley",
      "title": "Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Announces Latest Game-Changing Addition to Suite of GenAI Tools",
      "published": "2024-06-26",
      "url": "https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/ai-at-morgan-stanley-debrief-launch",
      "evidence": "Customer-owned launch announcement",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used for Debrief inputs, outputs, consent, Salesforce write and advisor decision boundaries; not treated as a complete specification."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-cbre-aws-integration",
      "publisher": "AWS and CBRE",
      "title": "CBRE and AWS perform natural language queries of structured data using Amazon Bedrock",
      "published": "2024-05-30",
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/cbre-and-aws-perform-natural-language-queries-of-structured-data-using-amazon-bedrock/",
      "evidence": "Primary technical article co-written with the customer",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used as an integration prototype, not a current reference stack or proof of production security and authorization."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-morgan-stanley-evals",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "Morgan Stanley uses AI evals to shape the future of financial services",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/morgan-stanley/",
      "evidence": "Primary provider customer story with named customer representatives",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used for expert grading, meeting evaluation datasets and daily regression testing; datasets and experimental design are not public."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-doctolib-launch",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "title": "Doctolib accelerates developer productivity with Claude Code",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://claude.com/customers/doctolib",
      "evidence": "Primary provider customer story with named customer engineer",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used for the 30-engineer pilot, wider rollout and shared setup repository; reported productivity claims are customer claims."
    },
    {
      "id": "case-bbva-handoff",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "title": "BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI",
      "published": "2026-06-11",
      "url": "https://openai.com/index/bbva/",
      "evidence": "Primary provider customer story with named customer leaders",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026. Used for internal champions, workshops, governance involvement and feedback channels. Conflicting usage cadence labels are omitted."
    },
    {
      "id": "library-aws-timeouts",
      "publisher": "Amazon Builders’ Library",
      "title": "Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter",
      "published": "2019",
      "url": "https://d1.awsstatic.com/builderslibrary/pdfs/timeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter.pdf",
      "evidence": "Original author / publisher / provider resource",
      "access_note": "Primary engineering article read; canonical AWS PDF used where the newer landing page did not expose the article text."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-factory",
      "publisher": "Panaversity",
      "title": "The AI Agent Factory: About",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://agentfactory.panaversity.org/docs/about",
      "evidence": "Author-owned educational method",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; used for curriculum and exercises. Ecosystem, earnings, and labor-market claims not independently validated."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-spec",
      "publisher": "Panaversity",
      "title": "Spec-Driven Development",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://agentfactory.panaversity.org/docs/spec-driven-development-crash-course",
      "evidence": "Author-owned educational method",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; used for curriculum and exercises. Ecosystem, earnings, and labor-market claims not independently validated."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-sor",
      "publisher": "Panaversity",
      "title": "The FDE AF Model",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://agentfactory.panaversity.org/docs/ecosystem/fde-af-model",
      "evidence": "Author-owned educational method",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; used for curriculum and exercises. Ecosystem, earnings, and labor-market claims not independently validated."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-redesign",
      "publisher": "Panaversity",
      "title": "Designing the Vertical System of Record",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://agentfactory.panaversity.org/docs/ecosystem/designing-the-vertical-sor",
      "evidence": "Author-owned educational method",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; used for curriculum and exercises. Ecosystem, earnings, and labor-market claims not independently validated."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-evaluation",
      "publisher": "Panaversity",
      "title": "Eval-Driven Development for AI Employees",
      "published": null,
      "url": "https://agentfactory.panaversity.org/docs/eval-driven-development-crash-course",
      "evidence": "Author-owned educational method",
      "access_note": "Read 14 September 2026; used for curriculum and exercises. Ecosystem, earnings, and labor-market claims not independently validated."
    },
    {
      "id": "benmore",
      "publisher": "Richard Buehling / Benmore",
      "title": "Forward Deployed: Discovery, AI-Driven Development, and the Forward Deployed Engineer",
      "published": "2026-02",
      "url": null,
      "evidence": "User-supplied practitioner book",
      "access_note": "Inspected locally 14 September 2026. Chapters 4–8, 10 and 13–17 inform discovery, specification, release, handoff and support exercises. Original PDF not hosted; no public download verified.",
      "filename": "Forward_Deployed_Benmore.pdf",
      "guide": "source-methods.md"
    }
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}