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Practical, no-fluff writing on engineering, AI and the cloud - drawn from real projects, not theory. 13 field guides and counting.
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Adding AI to an existing product without breaking it
A practical playbook for shipping LLM features that are useful, safe and cost-aware.
Cutting your AWS bill without cutting performance
The cloud-cost levers that actually move the needle for growing SaaS teams.
How we ship MVPs in weeks, not months
The scoping decisions that keep an MVP small, fast and genuinely validating.
RAG in production: what actually matters
Chunking, retrieval quality and evaluation.
Choosing Rails vs. Laravel vs. Node in 2026
An honest, project-driven take on picking a backend you won't regret.
Security basics every web app should ship with
The handful of defaults that prevent the most common (and costly) breaches.
A practical Claude API integration playbook
Structure, tools, streaming and cost control.
React Native vs. Flutter: how we actually choose
Both are production-grade. The right pick depends on your team, your UI ambitions and your existing stack.
Zero-downtime deployments, explained simply
Blue-green, rolling and canary releases.
Multi-tenancy patterns for SaaS, from first tenant to thousands
Shared schema, schema-per-tenant or database-per-tenant? A working guide to the trade-offs, with a migration path..
Technical SEO for developers: the parts that actually rank
Core Web Vitals, crawlability, structured data and rendering.
Monitoring that actually wakes you up (and only then)
Alert on symptoms, not causes. A small, honest observability setup for products that can't afford a platform team..
Modernising a legacy app without the big rewrite
The strangler-fig approach in practice: how to renovate a running system while it keeps earning money..
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