IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
155 articles
05 Mar 2026 · 16 min read
ai
Part 4 of 13 — Most developers skip straight to 'generate code.' The teams that get real value from AI spend 40% of their time planning before writing a single prompt.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 12 min read
architecture
Not every team wants React. Here are five production-ready alternatives for building marketing websites with headless Umbraco 17 — from Astro and Nuxt to SvelteKit, .NET Razor, and even plain HTML.
Read more04 Mar 2026 · 36 min read
architecture
Part 9 of 9 — Turning MarketingOS into a reusable template: new client onboarding in under an hour, multi-tenant content management, cost analysis showing 70% reduction per site, lessons learned, and what I'd do differently.
Read more02 Mar 2026 · 9 min read
architecture
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB — when do you use what? Two tech leads break it down with filing cabinet analogies, real use cases, and zero religious wars.
Read more01 Mar 2026 · 9 min read
ai
Putting AI into production is nothing like building a demo. Two tech leads discuss costs, hallucinations, latency, guard rails, and what actually breaks when real users hit your AI features.
Read more01 Mar 2026 · 15 min read
ai
Part 11 of 12 — The real cost of AI voice interviews, broken down per minute. Managed vs self-hosted economics, the three tipping points, and how to get from $3.45 per interview to under $1.00.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 18 min read
architecture
Part 10 of 12 — From 10 concurrent interviews to 10,000. LiveKit SFU mesh, stateless agent workers, Kubernetes auto-scaling, regional deployment, and the infrastructure patterns that handle hiring season surges.
Read more25 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
api
Two tech leads break down API design styles using restaurant analogies. Learn when to use REST, GraphQL, or gRPC — explained in casual English perfect for listening practice.
Read more24 Feb 2026 · 16 min read
architecture
Part 1 of 9 — Why headless Umbraco 17 with Next.js is the sweet spot for reusable marketing websites, the architecture decisions behind MarketingOS, and setting up both projects with Clean Architecture on .NET 10.
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