# Dodo Payments Engineering Blog > Technical deep-dives from the Dodo Payments engineering team. - **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/engineering --- - [How We Serve Markdown to AI Agents at the Edge](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/serving-markdown-ai-agents-edge): Every page on our website exists twice - HTML for humans, markdown for AI agents. Here's how we built a dual-format serving system on Cloudflare Workers that detects AI bots, serves pre-built markdown, and tracks consumption with Analytics Engine. - [Why We Nuked Our Framer Site and Rebuilt in Astro](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/how-we-built-dodopayments-website-astro-decap-seo): We migrated dodopayments.com off Framer and rebuilt it from scratch in Astro with Decap CMS and Cloudflare Workers. Here's why, how we architected SEO and GEO as build-time infrastructure, and what we got wrong along the way. - [Our MCP Server Just Got a Major Upgrade: Code Mode Is Here](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/mcp-server-code-mode-upgrade): The way AI agents interact with APIs is changing fast. For months, the standard MCP (Model Context Protocol) approach has been to expose every API endpoint as its own tool - give the agent a... - [I Asked AI Agents to Build 8 Games. They One-Shotted Every Single One.](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/ai-agents-build-8-games): A year ago, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" and it became the word of the year. This year, he quietly nominated its successor: agentic engineering. I didn't fully grasp the difference... - [AI Is Getting 1,000x Cheaper. Here's What That Means for Builders.](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/ai-getting-cheaper-what-it-means): *A plain-English breakdown of the most underrated trend in tech right now, and why it opens the biggest opportunity window for founders and developers in a generation.* - [Motion feels productive. Clarity creates momentum.](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/clarity-creates-momentum): There is a specific kind of tired you only get in early-stage startups. - [Building Webhooks That Never Fail: Our Journey to 99.99%+ Delivery Reliability](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/building-webhooks-never-fail): At Dodo Payments, webhooks are how our merchants know when money moves. A customer pays for a subscription, we fire a payment.succeeded webhook, and the merchant's system provisions access. Simple... - [How We Built Our Deployment Pipeline: GitOps, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes at Dodo Payments](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/deployment-pipeline-gitops-argocd-kubernetes): It started with a question from our security compliance team: "Can you show me exactly what changed in production last Tuesday at 3 PM?" - [Why We Built Our Own Context Layer for AI Agents](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/context-layer-ai-agents): At Dodo Payments, we've always believed in making payments simple. That's why we built Sentra, an AI agent that takes you from a prompt to a production ready payments setup. - [Why We Moved from Nginx to Istio: Dodo Payments Journey to Service Mesh](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/nginx-to-istio-service-mesh): It started with a Slack message at 11 PM on a Thursday. - [Cloud Infrastructure Costs Are Not the Enemy, Poor Planning Is !](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/cloud-infrastructure-costs-planning): Anytime I speak with startup founders or even groups from established businesses regarding their cloud infrastructure, the discussion tends to have an unexpected twist. We discuss active users,... - [How Merchant Insights Drive Innovation at Dodo Payments](https://dodopayments.com/engineering/merchant-insights-drive-innovation): I'm Deep, and I lead Product at [Dodo Payments](https://dodopayments.com), a global payment solution that is revolutionizing online payment processing. --- **Dodo Payments** -- The billing & payments platform for AI-first companies. [Payments](https://dodopayments.com/payments) | [Billing](https://dodopayments.com/billing) | [Distribution](https://dodopayments.com/distribution) | [Pricing](https://dodopayments.com/pricing) | [Documentation](https://docs.dodopayments.com) | [Dashboard](https://app.dodopayments.com)