Blog · 100 essays

Engineering essays from the bench.

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

2025.03.06

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.

2025.02.27

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.

2025.02.20

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.

2025.02.13

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.

2025.01.30

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.

2025.01.16

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.

2025.01.02

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.

2024.12.19

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.

2024.12.05

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.

2024.11.21

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.