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No-fluff technical writing from engineers who've shipped production systems at scale — and learned what actually works.

The Strangler Fig Pattern: Escape Legacy Hell Without the Big-Bang Rewrite

How to modernize a monolith incrementally — with real-world implementation steps, pitfalls to avoid, and why the 'just rewrite it' instinct kills projects.

2026-05-13 9 min read

AI Agents in Production: What Nobody Tells You

The gap between an impressive AI demo and a reliable production system is enormous. Here's the architecture, failure modes, and engineering discipline that bridges it.

2026-05-13 10 min read

Performance

Core Web Vitals in 2026: What Actually Moves the Needle

After auditing 50+ production sites, here are the optimizations with the highest ROI on Lighthouse scores — and the ones that waste your time.

2026-05-13 7 min read

Building RAG Systems That Actually Work for Small Teams

Most RAG implementations fail in production. Here's the architecture pattern — and the retrieval quality fixes — that make the difference between a useful tool and an expensive toy.

2026-05-13 9 min read

Architecture

Why Every Architecture Decision Needs an ADR

Architecture Decision Records are the most underused practice in software engineering. Here's how to write them and why they'll save you from your own future.

2026-05-13 6 min read

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