Field notes, not thought leadership.
Short, useful posts on the things we run into while shipping durable software.
- 9 min read
A 12-point RAG-in-production checklist
What we run through before a retrieval-augmented feature goes anywhere near a customer. Evals, guardrails, cost ceilings, and the sharp edges nobody talks about.
AIEngineeringRead the post - 7 min read
Shipping SOC 2 readiness as an engineering project
SOC 2 is mostly engineering work. Treating it as a paperwork exercise is the most expensive way to get there. A practical plan for engineering teams.
SecurityEngineeringRead the post - 8 min read
The strangler-fig rebuild: faster than a rewrite, every time
Why we keep refusing greenfield rewrites of legacy apps and what we do instead. A pattern that has shipped under brittle PHP, ColdFusion, and one extremely angry Rails 3 app.
ModernizationEngineeringRead the post - 6 min read
What senior engineers actually ship
Notes from a year of staffing senior-only engagements. The work that compounds, the work that destroys teams, and how to tell the difference.
StudioEngineeringRead the post
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