Engineering & Product
The Shunya Blog

How we architect, build, and ship production software - engineering deep dives, AI guides, product thinking, and real case studies from the team that owns the whole stack.

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AI9 min

Building RAG Pipelines That Actually Work in Production

A practical guide to production RAG - chunking, embeddings, retrieval quality, grounding, and evaluation. The engineering decisions that separate a demo from a system you can trust.

Product6 min

Why Full-Stack Ownership Beats Handoffs

Handoffs between frontend, backend, infra, and design teams are where projects rot. Here is why a single team owning the whole stack ships faster and breaks less.

Case Studies8 min

Case Study: Building CodrzAI, an Engineering OS for Students

How we built CodrzAI from scratch in four months - AI roadmaps, six specialised agents, a project-scaffolding engine, and an open-source bounty marketplace - and what we learned.

Engineering7 min

Next.js, tRPC, Prisma: Our Default Production Stack

Why Shunya reaches for Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma by default - end-to-end type safety, one language across the stack, and a boring, reliable path from idea to production.

Engineering8 min

Next.js 15 Server Components in Production: What Actually Changed

A dozen App Router apps later - the mental model that stuck, what got better, where Server Components bit us, the four overlapping caches, and the rules we ship by.

Engineering9 min

Scaling Postgres for SaaS: The Order Problems Actually Show Up

Most "we need to scale our database" conversations are really "we never tuned our database" conversations. How we scale Postgres - measure, index, pool, replicate - in the right order.

Product7 min

The Real Cost of Cutting Corners in Software

Cutting scope makes you faster with no long-term cost. Cutting corners makes you faster today and slower every day after. Why the two are not the same, and where the bill actually lands.

Startups8 min

From Idea to MVP in 6 Weeks: The Week-by-Week Playbook

The concrete, week-by-week version of how we take a founder's idea to a deployed MVP in six weeks - discovery, foundation, the core loop, polish, and launch.

AI8 min

Designing AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate

Hallucination is largely an architecture problem, not a model problem. How we build agents businesses rely on - grounding, tools, constrained outputs, citations, and evaluation.

Engineering8 min

CI/CD That Actually Ships: A Pipeline on Every Project

A deployment pipeline has one job: make shipping so safe and boring that nobody is afraid to do it. The CI/CD setup we put on every project and why each piece earns its place.

Case Studies8 min

Case Study: Building SyncOrbit, a Command Center for Agencies

How SyncOrbit came together - the problem of an agency with no single screen, the core loop, the aggregation architecture, and why the data model, not the dashboard, was the hard part.

Product8 min

Mobile vs Web vs PWA: How to Choose the Right Platform

Native app, web app, or PWA? It is not a technology question - it is about who your users are and what you can afford to maintain. How we match the platform to the product.