Brendan Bondurant
Content Manager at WunderGraph, writing about GraphQL Federation and API tooling. Writes independently about APIs in plain language and guitar, drawing on nearly 20 years of teaching and performing music before moving into software engineering and technical writing.
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RAG Cost Optimization
RAG costs spiral when caching, retrieval, and model calls are decided locally by each team, centralizing control is what keeps AI spend predictable.
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The Blues Scale is a Compromise
The standard blues-scale lesson (minor pentatonic plus one passing tone) skips why the scale sounds bluesy in the first place.
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Three Minor Scales, One Minor Key
Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor aren’t three separate scales. They’re three solutions to the same problem.
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The Dominant Seventh Wants to Go Somewhere
Guitarists learn the dominant 7th as a chord shape. It’s actually an engine.
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CAGED Is a Starting Point
The CAGED system is a useful way to organize the fretboard. The mistake is treating it like music theory.
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Voice Leading on Guitar
Guitarists learn chord shapes. Pianists learn how notes move between chords. This gap explains more than you’d think.
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Learn to Hear the Melody
A lead sheet tells you what the melody is. Your ear is what makes it yours.
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Intervals Are Sounds, Not Fret Distances
Ask a guitarist what a minor third is, and you will most likely hear: three frets. That’s correct in the same way that “turn left at the stop sign” is a correct description of where your house is. It tells you how to get there, but it doesn’t tell you what’s there when you arrive.…
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G Major vs A Dorian: Same Notes, Different Music
Two scales can be identical in construction yet different in musical behavior. Why modes aren’t just rotations of a major scale.
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The State of Federation 2026 Survey Is Open
WunderGraph’s 2026 State of Federation survey is open: 5-10 minutes on your GraphQL federation setup, plus new questions on AI and agent traffic.