Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
Growth Engineering: Experiments, Analytics and Referrals
Growth engineering in practice: feature flags and A/B test math, an event tracking plan, activation queries, referral systems and technical SEO that ranks.
HIPAA Compliance for Tech Companies: What You Need to Know
HIPAA compliance for technology companies: PHI requirements, technical safeguards, business associate agreements, and common pitfalls.
How to Build a Design System and Component Library
How to build a design system teams adopt: token tiers, component APIs, packaging for React Server Components, versioning, accessibility and visual tests.
Cloud Cost Optimization: 10 Strategies in the Right Order
Ten cloud cost optimization strategies in the order that works: attribution, idle cleanup, right-sizing, Savings Plans, Spot, storage and data transfer.
Supply Chain Predictive Analytics: A Practical Build Guide
How to build predictive analytics for a supply chain: censored demand data, forecast baselines, quantile models, reorder points and policy backtests.
TypeScript Best Practices for Large Codebases
TypeScript practices that hold up at scale: strict tsconfig flags, runtime validation at boundaries, discriminated unions, lint rules and fast type checks.
Software Supply Chain Security: A Practical Defense Guide
Secure your software supply chain: lockfiles, install-script limits, release cooldowns, hardened CI, SBOMs, signed provenance and an incident playbook.
Build vs Buy Software: A Decision Framework for CTOs
When to build software and when to buy it: a weighted decision matrix, a three-year TCO formula, vendor due diligence checks and an exit plan up front.
What Is a Feature Store? A Practical Guide With Feast
What a feature store does, when you actually need one, and a worked Feast setup: point-in-time joins, online serving, materialization and skew checks.
Microservices Architecture Patterns That Work in Production
The microservices patterns that matter in production: service boundaries, gateway and BFF, outbox, saga, idempotency, resilience, and when not to split.