# persistent sessions Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Persistent sessions maintain user state across server restarts and browser closures by offloading session data from volatile RAM to durable storage like Redis or PostgreSQL.

Stateless protocols like HTTP require a reliable mechanism to track users. Persistent sessions solve this by mapping a unique browser cookie to a backend database entry (often a key-value store like Redis). This architecture prevents 'session drops' during high-traffic deployments or server failures. By setting an explicit Time To Live (TTL) of 30 days or more, platforms like GitHub or Amazon ensure users remain authenticated even after a full system reboot. It shifts the burden of state from the local application memory to a distributed layer, allowing for seamless horizontal scaling across multiple availability zones.

- Official technology site: https://redis.io/glossary/session-persistence/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [From 1 Agent to 11: Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems That Actually Work](https://columbus.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_nZaEJ2xzX0c)

I built an AI operating system (AIOS) that runs my technology community organization, Cloud Nirvana, using 11 specialized AI agents coordinated from a Mac Mini. Each agent owns a domain: email triage, speaker pipeline QA, partnership tracking, CRM operations, content, community engagement, financial operations, and strategic planning. They share an encrypted CRM, communicate through file-based memory, and operate under a graduated trust model where each agent earns autonomy based on demonstrated reliability. Along the way, everything broke at least once. I documented those failures as reusable engineering patterns (inspired by the Gang of Four) and open-sourced them. The demo walks through the live system, shows agents handling real work in real time, and demonstrates how any builder can discover and apply these patterns against their own codebase.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - Columbus April Meetup — 2026-04-06 — Columbus
- Public talk page: https://columbus.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_nZaEJ2xzX0c

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