Architecture decisions, product teardowns and hard-won patterns from shipping production systems, written for the engineers and product leaders who have to make the same calls. No theory I have not run in production.
Chinese manufacturers are moving past Nigerian middlemen and selling straight to Nigerian consumers, and the usual response is either to fight it or to wait for a government that…
Everything I do comes down to principles, and the first one is to go after the painful problem: not what you are building, not what you are passionate about, the headache someone…
A shared inference budget kept hitting zero every ten days or so, and for a month we read that as the price of the work. It was not. Nine-tenths of every dollar was a reasoning…
Fewer than a quarter of CEOs who invested in AI report revenue increases, and even that figure is executives grading their own work. PwC's AI performance study is well run, but the…
One navigation link on this site returned 200 for an extended period while serving the wrong page entirely, and every status check we had passed the whole time. Three more defects…
Rippli spent a year climbing down the managed-hosting ladder, Replit, then Render's free tier, then a bare VPS, because the workload was the wrong shape for free infrastructure,…
Most apps assume the network is there. Across the markets I build for, it usually is not. Here is the architecture I keep coming back to, local-first writes, a durable intent…
Uber burnt through its entire 2026 AI budget by April, undone by a single engineer running up $1,200 in token fees in one debugging session. As Salesforce, Adobe and HubSpot…
Fellowships, scholarships and grant programmes screen at scale on written English. Generative tools made that filter measure access rather than readiness, and detection cannot fix…
Selection programmes report how many people they admitted and graduated, and the ones that try to do better mostly reach for a bigger number. The opposite of a bad number is not a…
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I work with product and engineering teams on architecture, technical strategy and delivery, turning what is on this page into decisions, roadmaps and shipped systems.