Engineering notes

Engineering

Notes from production — LLM systems, cloud platforms and interfaces that had to survive real traffic. No newsletter filler.

Strangler-fig migrations without the drama

Big-bang cutovers fail loudly. Incremental migrations fail quietly, early, and cheaply — which is the whole point.

A prototype that proves the easy part proves nothing. Spend the two weeks on whatever could kill the project.

Engineering notes

What we learned shipping AI systems, cloud platforms and interfaces that had to survive real traffic. No newsletter filler.