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Field notes from real builds. Written by the engineers doing the work, not a content team paraphrasing them.

Latest posts

  • Rewriting a ledger without downtime. The compatibility-shim pattern we used to swap the core of a fintech in nine weeks.
  • LLM evals that actually matter. Why golden-set accuracy lies to you, and what to measure instead.
  • Multi-tenant Postgres at 400 tenants. Row-level security, connection pooling, and the day pgBouncer bit us.
  • The 20-minute sprint retro. A meeting template that finally survived contact with senior engineers.
  • Design tokens for teams that hate design systems. Shipping consistent UI without the platform tax.

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  • Architecture decisions on real client work.
  • Applied AI/ML — retrieval, evals, guardrails.
  • Postgres, edge, and multi-tenant patterns.
  • How a senior-only studio actually operates.

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