Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
SaaS Pricing Implementation: Metering, Entitlements, Billing
How SaaS teams implement pricing in code: a versioned plan catalog, idempotent usage metering, an entitlement service, Stripe webhooks and dunning.
SOC 2 for Startups: A Practical Guide to Your First Audit
What SOC 2 requires, Type 1 vs Type 2, which Trust Services Criteria to scope, the controls auditors test, and how a startup produces the evidence.
What Is MLOps? A Practical Introduction for Engineers
What MLOps is, how it differs from DevOps, and a minimal working setup: versioned data, tracked experiments, CI evaluation gates, safe rollout, monitoring.
The Modern Data Engineering Stack: From Ingestion to Analytics
The modern data stack: ELT pipelines, dbt, lakehouses, orchestration with Dagster and Airflow, and real-time streaming.
Technical Debt Management: When to Pay It Down and When to Ship
Learn how to identify, measure, and strategically manage technical debt so it accelerates your team instead of slowing it down.
Docker in Production: Dockerfile and Image Best Practices
Production Docker done right: multi-stage Dockerfiles for Node.js and Go, non-root images, digest pinning, scanning, signing, and the failures to expect.
Building Production AI Pipelines in Python, Step by Step
How to build a production AI pipeline in Python: validated ingestion, point-in-time features, tracked training, evaluation gates, serving and drift checks.
Penetration Testing Methodology: Scope, Run and Act on a Test
How a penetration test works end to end: types, standards, scoping, rules of engagement, reading findings, fixing them and retesting before the next audit.
Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture: Patterns That Scale
Multi-tenant SaaS architecture in practice: pool, bridge and silo models, Postgres row-level security, tenant routing, noisy neighbors, SSO and billing.
Zero Trust Architecture: A Practical Implementation Guide
Implement zero trust architecture step by step: NIST SP 800-207 components, identity and device signals, policy as code, service identity and segmentation.
