Journal
A compact reading surface for technical notes, architecture decisions, and observations from shipping real systems.
Practical patterns for handling LLM failures at scale: cached responses, tiered model fallbacks, request reshaping, and honest trade-offs when your primary strategy breaks....
Explore temporal, data, and operational coupling across service boundaries. Learn decision frameworks for when loose coupling justifies complexity versus pragmatic tight coupling in production systems...
A field guide to diagnosing log volume problems, choosing between sampling and filtering, and building sustainable logging infrastructure without over-engineering....
Build systems that reduce functionality intentionally rather than cascade. Practical patterns for detecting dependency failures early and maintaining safe operational boundaries....
How shifting from "being right" to "helping others improve" transformed my code reviews, accelerated team shipping, and fundamentally changed my leadership approach....
Real-world prompt injection detection and mitigation for production AI systems. Trade-offs between sandboxing, filtering, and risk acceptance with concrete RAG and multi-turn examples....
