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Essays, patterns and post-mortems on AI engineering, product delivery and enterprise architecture — written by the engineers doing the work.

Featured · AI Engineering

Building production-grade agentic systems in 2026

What's actually working when you move from LLM demos to multi-agent systems your customers depend on — and the failure modes we keep seeing.

Priya Sundaram March 12, 202612 min read
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AI

RAG in the real world: retrieval strategies that outperform vector-only search

Rohan Kapadia · Feb 28, 20269 min
Engineering

The case against microservices for series-A startups

David Okafor · Feb 20, 20267 min
Design

Design systems for AI-native products: patterns for uncertainty

Sara El Amrani · Feb 11, 20268 min
Cloud

Cutting Kubernetes cost by 40% without touching workloads

Jamal Thompson · Feb 5, 202610 min
AI

Evaluations, not vibes: an eval harness that scales with your team

Priya Sundaram · Jan 22, 202611 min
Product

Why weekly demos beat every other planning ritual

Mei Lin Zhang · Jan 15, 20266 min
Mobile

Flutter at scale: what we learned shipping to 12M users

David Okafor · Jan 8, 20269 min
QA

The Playwright patterns we use on every project

Layla Farah · Dec 20, 20257 min
Strategy

Choosing an AI vendor without getting locked in

Arjun Ramachandra · Dec 10, 20258 min
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Field notes

Essays and patterns from the engineers doing the work.