Blog · 76 essays

Engineering essays from the bench.

War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.

Featured · 2026.04.01

Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: What Happened, How It Works, and How to Protect Your Projects

A complete breakdown of the March 2026 Axios npm supply chain attack. Understand how attackers compromised a 100M weekly download package to deploy a cross-platform RAT, with step-by-step detection and remediation guidance.

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Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: What Happened, How It Works, and How to Protect Your Projects
2026.03.19

Cloud IAM Best Practices Across AWS, Azure, and GCP: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide (Updated 2026)

Updated for 2026 - The definitive guide to cloud IAM across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Step-by-step implementation of least privilege, policy design, service accounts, federation, audit logging, and common misconfigurations to avoid.

2026.03.19

Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms That Actually Get Adopted

A practical guide to platform engineering and building internal developer platforms. Covers golden paths, self-service infrastructure, Backstage, Crossplane, and measuring platform success.

2026.03.12

Securing AI Agents in Production: Threats, Guardrails, and Enterprise Best Practices

A practical guide to securing AI agents in production environments. Covers prompt injection defense, privilege management, data exposure prevention, agent-to-agent security, and monitoring strategies.

2026.03.05

Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building AI Integrations That Scale

A hands-on guide to the Model Context Protocol. Learn how to build MCP servers and clients, connect AI agents to enterprise tools, and deploy MCP in production with security and observability.

2026.02.26

Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Practical Migration Guide for Engineering Teams

Prepare your systems for the quantum threat. A step-by-step guide to post-quantum cryptography migration covering NIST standards, crypto-agility, hybrid deployments, and compliance timelines.

2026.02.19

Introducing Zenith AI: Submission Intelligence That Filters the Noise

We built Zenith AI to solve a problem every team with a contact form knows too well. Up to 80% of submissions are spam. Zenith uses AI to detect spam, score leads, and generate smart replies so you can focus on real opportunities.

2026.02.07

Identity and Access Management: A Modern IAM Strategy Guide

Build a modern IAM strategy covering SSO, MFA, RBAC vs ABAC, privileged access management, cloud IAM, and zero-standing-privileges for enterprise security.

2026.02.05

Next.js Performance Optimization: From Good to Blazing Fast

Learn proven Next.js performance optimization techniques including server components, image handling, bundle analysis, and caching strategies to build lightning-fast web applications.

2026.02.03

RAG Architecture: Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

A comprehensive guide to building production-ready RAG pipelines, covering chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores, reranking, and evaluation metrics.

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