Jul 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Writing Better ADRs for Engineering Teams
How to write Architecture Decision Records that remain useful after implementation pressure and team turnover.
- architecture
- adr
- engineering-practice
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Jun 27, 2026 · 11 min read
RAG Is Now a Data Product Discipline
A personal take on why modern RAG success depends less on clever prompting and more on ownership, curation, and measurable retrieval quality.
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Mar 17, 2025 · 7 min read
Evaluating LLM Workflows with Governance Signals
A practical evaluation strategy using policy violations, cost drift, and tool access behavior as first-class metrics.
- llm
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Apr 30, 2024 · 8 min read
Production RAG Without Overengineering
A pragmatic blueprint for Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems that must deliver value with limited operational complexity.
- rag
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Feb 18, 2024 · 7 min read
Architecture by Contracts for Enterprise APIs
How explicit API contracts reduce coordination overhead and long-term maintenance risk in enterprise systems.
- architecture
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Nov 05, 2026 · 6 min read
When an AI Agent’s Context Goes Stale
How to design AI workflows that notice when records, policies, or approvals have changed between planning and execution.
- agentic-ai
- reliability
- governance
- software-architecture
Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Designing Deadline and Ownership Contracts for Python I/O
An evidence-backed case study of threaded cancellation, shared receive deadlines, bounded retries, and resource ownership through cleanup.
- python
- reliability
- backend-engineering
Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min read
The Last Mile of Agent Reliability: Knowing When the Work Is Done
A practical design perspective on completion evidence, ambiguous outcomes, and safe recovery in AI workflows that change external systems.
- agentic-ai
- reliability
- backend-engineering
- governance
Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Designing Explicit Memory and Shutdown Budgets for an Async Worker
A measured case study of admission, cooperative shutdown, bounded outcome history, and diagnostic payload limits in a Python worker.
- python
- reliability
- backend-engineering
- performance
Oct 02, 2026 · 7 min read
When Intelligence Becomes Infrastructure
A look toward a future of cooperating AI systems—and the authority, memory, and human choices that will shape it.
- ai-systems
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- governance
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Sep 22, 2026 · 10 min read
A Programmer’s Guide to Trustworthy Intelligence
Designing cooperation, accountability, and human agency for a world of increasingly autonomous systems.
- ai-systems
- governance
- trustworthy-ai
- software-architecture
Aug 14, 2026 · 12 min read
Agentic AI Needs an Operating Model, Not Just a Demo
A thorough personal perspective on why sustainable agentic AI adoption depends on governance, economics, and execution discipline.
- agentic-ai
- governance
- operations
- ai-strategy
Jul 22, 2026 · 10 min read
Most Agents Fail at Handoffs, Not Reasoning
A practical personal perspective on why production agents break at workflow boundaries, tool handoffs, and accountability seams.
- agents
- workflow
- reliability
- enterprise-ai
Apr 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Deployment Design for Small AI Platform Teams
A lean deployment model for teams that need production discipline without heavy platform overhead.
- deployment
- devops
- ai-platform
Feb 06, 2026 · 7 min read
Practical Rate Limiting Patterns for Service Reliability
Rate limiting strategies that protect API availability without degrading trusted internal workloads.
- reliability
- api
- operations
Nov 19, 2025 · 8 min read
Integrating LangGraph into Business Processes
Integration patterns that keep agent workflows useful, governable, and maintainable in enterprise process automation.
- langgraph
- agents
- enterprise-ai
Aug 11, 2025 · 6 min read
Documentation as Delivery Infrastructure
Why documentation quality directly influences engineering throughput, onboarding speed, and operational resilience.
- documentation
- engineering
- operations
May 28, 2025 · 8 min read
Designing FastAPI Services for Enterprise Adoption
Patterns that make Python APIs easier to approve, operate, and integrate in enterprise environments.
- fastapi
- backend
- enterprise
Jan 22, 2025 · 8 min read
Modernization Roadmap for Legacy .NET Applications
A phased migration model that improves delivery speed without destabilizing core enterprise operations.
- dotnet
- modernization
- enterprise
Oct 09, 2024 · 6 min read
Operational Readiness Checklists for AI Services
How simple readiness checklists prevent avoidable incidents in API-based AI systems.
- operations
- ai-systems
- reliability
Jul 14, 2024 · 9 min read
SQL Server Performance Playbook for Application Teams
Performance improvements that consistently matter in enterprise SQL Server environments with mixed workloads.
- sql-server
- databases
- performance