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I architect systems for a living. I spend my days designing secure, scalable ecosystems for Fortune 500 companies, ensuring data flows correctly between Salesforce, Mulesoft, and AI agents. Yet, for the longest time, my own digital home was built on “rented land.” I was writing on platforms like Hashnode and Medium. They are fantastic tools, but they are Black Boxes. I found myself wrestling with random timeouts, Cloudflare verification loops, limited free articles that blocked my readers, and rigid styling that felt like wearing a uniform. ...

We’ve been on quite a journey. In Episode 1, we learned that MCP is the new nervous system for AI. In Episode 2, we made peace with MuleSoft (integration’s heavy lifter). In Episode 3, we stood at the fork in the road and chose our protocol—Open Source or Enterprise. Now, we turn the key. We stop looking at architecture diagrams and start looking at behaviour. Because when you actually switch this on, something fundamental shifts. ...

Recap We’re deep into our journey now. In Episode 1, we discovered the “nervous system” of AI (MCP) and in Episode 2, we realized that APIs and MuleSoft aren’t dying—they’re just getting a new boss. Now, in Episode 3, we arrive at the most critical decision point in this entire architecture. It’s the question every CTO, architect, and developer is debating in Slack channels right now: “Do I build with the free, open-source community version? Or do I pay for the enterprise-grade version like Salesforce’s Agentforce?” ...