Blog · 76 essays

Engineering essays from the bench.

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

2025.08.14

Service Mesh with Istio: Observability, Security, and Traffic Management

A hands-on guide to Istio service mesh covering architecture, traffic management, mTLS security, observability with Kiali and Jaeger, and performance considerations.

2025.08.07

Choosing a Tech Stack for Your Startup in 2025

A practical decision framework for selecting the right programming languages, frameworks, databases, and infrastructure for your startup in 2025.

2025.07.24

Building Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Server-Sent Events

Learn how to build scalable real-time applications using WebSockets and SSE, covering implementation patterns, scaling with Redis, and production deployment.

2025.07.17

Building AI-Powered Customer Support Systems That Actually Work

A practical guide to building AI customer support systems that resolve issues effectively, covering architecture, intent recognition, escalation logic, and evaluation.

2025.07.03

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: A Production Guide

Learn how to structure Terraform projects for production, manage state safely, write reusable modules, and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes.

2025.06.19

API Security Best Practices Every Developer Should Know

Master API security with practical best practices covering authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, and monitoring to protect your applications.

2025.06.12

SIEM and Security Operations: Building an Effective SOC

Learn how to build an effective Security Operations Center with SIEM architecture, detection engineering, alert tuning, SOAR integration, and SOC team structure.

2025.06.05

React Native for Cross-Platform Apps: Lessons from Production

Practical lessons from building production React Native apps, covering architecture decisions, native module integration, performance tuning, and deployment strategies.

2025.05.22

Responsible AI: Addressing Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning

A practical framework for identifying, measuring, and mitigating bias in machine learning systems, covering data auditing, fairness metrics, and organizational practices.

2025.05.08

Multi-Cloud Strategy: When It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right

Explore when multi-cloud architecture delivers real value versus unnecessary complexity, and learn practical patterns for running workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure.