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Articles and case studies.

Notes on building data-heavy products, useful automations, and the decisions behind the work.

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25 pieces
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Case study/Sep 16, 2026

Building an ERP you can talk to

What changed when inventory, invoices, and ledgers became a conversation instead of a collection of forms.

AI systemsProduct engineeringReact Native
02
Case study/Jul 28, 2026

Building a Real-Time Geospatial Monitoring Platform

The architecture decisions that make live operational data useful instead of merely fast.

Real-time systemsGeospatialArchitecture
03
Engineering perspective/Jul 26, 2026

How I Approach System Design Before Writing Code

A practical sequence for turning an ambiguous product request into a system that can be discussed, tested, and changed.

System designProduct engineeringCommunication
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Technical deep dive/Jul 24, 2026

Designing Resumable Uploads for Large Files

Why upload reliability is mostly a coordination problem between the browser, the API, and object storage.

UploadsObject storageReliability
05
Case study/Jul 22, 2026

What I Learned Building Real-Time Data Pipelines

The useful lessons are in ordering, backpressure, and recovery, not in making a demo stream move quickly.

Data pipelinesStreamingBackend
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Engineering perspective/Jul 20, 2026

The Engineering Trade-Offs Behind Event-Driven Architecture

Events create useful decoupling, but they also move complexity into contracts, debugging, and operational discipline.

Event-driven systemsArchitectureDistributed systems
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Technical deep dive/Jul 18, 2026

How I Design Idempotent APIs for Reliable Processing

Retries are inevitable; duplicate business effects should not be.

APIsReliabilityTransactions
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Technical deep dive/Jul 16, 2026

Retry Logic Is Not Enough for Reliable Background Jobs

A durable job system needs a failure policy, visibility, and a safe way to stop trying.

Background jobsOperationsBackend
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Engineering perspective/Jul 14, 2026

Observability for Backend Systems: Logs, Metrics, and Traces

A useful observability strategy starts with the questions an operator must answer during an incident.

ObservabilityBackendOperations
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Frontend architecture/Jul 12, 2026

How I Structure Large React Applications for Long-Term Maintainability

Maintainability comes from clear ownership of data, effects, and user-facing state.

ReactFrontendArchitecture
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Frontend architecture/Jul 10, 2026

Designing Frontends That Stay Responsive Under Heavy Data Updates

High-frequency data is a rendering problem, a data-shaping problem, and a product-priority problem at the same time.

ReactPerformanceReal-time systems
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Technical deep dive/Jul 8, 2026

How I Approach Frontend Performance Debugging

A repeatable investigation is more valuable than a list of optimization tricks.

FrontendPerformanceDebugging
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Frontend architecture/Jul 6, 2026

Frontend Error Handling for Real Users, Not Just Happy Paths

Errors are part of the interface; the product should explain what happened and what the user can do next.

ReactUXReliability
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AI engineering/Jul 4, 2026

Building AI Features That Actually Work in Production

A production AI feature is a bounded workflow with contracts, fallbacks, and a way to learn from mistakes.

AI systemsProduct engineeringReliability
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AI engineering/Jul 2, 2026

Designing Reliable AI Agents for Business Workflows

An agent becomes trustworthy when its autonomy is constrained by explicit tools, approvals, and observable state.

AI agentsWorkflowsSafety
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AI engineering/Jun 30, 2026

How to Evaluate AI Output Before It Reaches the User

Evaluation becomes practical when quality is defined as a set of observable product behaviors rather than a single score.

AI evaluationTestingProduct engineering
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AI engineering/Jun 28, 2026

RAG, Tool Calling, and Structured Outputs: Choosing the Right Approach

These patterns solve different problems, and combining them without a clear job creates unnecessary complexity.

RAGTool callingLLMs
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Case study/Jun 26, 2026

From Raw Telemetry to a Useful Real-Time Dashboard

A dashboard earns its space by helping someone decide what to do next, not by displaying every available field.

TelemetryDashboardsProduct design
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Case study/Jun 24, 2026

The Engineering Challenges of Streaming Video Alongside Live Map Data

Video and geospatial data have different timing, bandwidth, and failure characteristics; the interface has to respect both.

VideoGeospatialReal-time systems
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Architecture/Jun 22, 2026

Building Software for Environments Where Connectivity Is Not Guaranteed

Offline behavior is a consistency policy, a user experience, and an operational promise.

Offline-firstMobileReliability
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Distributed systems/Jun 20, 2026

How to Keep Real-Time Data Consistent Across Multiple Clients

Consistency is easier to discuss when the system names its source of truth and its acceptable delay.

Real-time systemsConsistencyAPIs
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Engineering perspective/Jun 18, 2026

The Difference Between a Feature That Works and a System That Scales

The gap appears in retries, permissions, observability, migration paths, and the people who operate the software.

Software qualityArchitectureDelivery
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Architecture/Jun 16, 2026

When to Use REST, WebSockets, SSE, and gRPC

Protocol choice should follow communication shape, operational constraints, and how the client needs to recover.

APIsProtocolsSystem design
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Architecture/Jun 14, 2026

From Monolith to Modular Architecture: When to Split a Backend

A modular monolith can create the boundaries a product needs before it pays the cost of distributed deployment.

BackendModular monolithArchitecture
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Engineering perspective/Jun 12, 2026

Making Engineering Decisions When the Information Is Incomplete

Good decisions do not require perfect certainty; they require explicit assumptions and a cheap way to learn.

Decision makingProduct engineeringLeadership