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The technical corner - how we architect, build and ship production systems, written for engineers who want the detail not the summary.

The technical corner. How we architect, build and ship production systems - stacks, patterns and trade-offs, written for engineers who want the detail rather than the summary.

Building RAG Pipelines That Actually Work in Production

Engineering13 min

A practical guide to production RAG: chunking, retrieval quality, grounding and evaluation - what separates a demo from a system you can trust.

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

Engineering13 min

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

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Scaling Postgres for SaaS: The Order Problems Actually Show Up

Engineering13 min

Most "we need to scale the database" conversations are really "we never tuned the database". How to scale Postgres in the right order.

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Designing AI Agents That Don't Hallucinate

Engineering13 min

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

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

Engineering13 min

A deployment pipeline has one job: make shipping so boring that nobody fears it. The CI/CD setup we put on every project, and why each piece earns it.

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