Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration: A Practical Guide
Migrate to post-quantum cryptography: FIPS 203, 204 and 205, crypto inventory, Mosca's risk model, hybrid ML-KEM TLS with OpenSSL 3.5, and the deadlines.
Zenith AI: Spam Filtering and Lead Scoring for Web Forms
Zenith AI screens every web form submission: eight anti-abuse layers, a spam score, lead tier, sentiment, urgency and a draft reply. How it works.
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.
Next.js Performance Optimization for the App Router
Speed up a Next.js App Router app: Server Components, streaming, caching and revalidation, next/image, next/font, and fixing LCP, INP and CLS in the field.
RAG Architecture: How to Build a Production RAG Pipeline
How to build a production RAG pipeline: parsing, chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, reranking and evaluation, with a working Python example.
How to Build AI Agents for Production: A Practical Guide
How to build AI agents that hold up in production: the agent loop, tool design, state and memory, hard limits, evaluation, and the failures to plan for.
Kubernetes vs Serverless: A Practical Decision Framework
Kubernetes vs serverless compared on cost, limits, latency and operations, with a decision tree, a cost model you can rerun, and the failure modes of each.
Phishing Defense Strategies: Controls That Actually Work
Phishing defense that works: SPF, DKIM and DMARC done right, phishing-resistant MFA, mailbox hardening, fast reporting, and what to do when someone clicks.
Enterprise Generative AI Strategy: A Practical Framework
A practical enterprise generative AI strategy: choosing use cases, build vs buy, a shared platform, cost modeling, governance and measuring real ROI.
MVP Development: How to Scope, Build and Ship an MVP
How to build an MVP that tests one real assumption: scoping with a cut list, a week-by-week build plan, what must be production-grade, and launch checks.
