IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
20 articles
07 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-infrastructure
As of August 7, 2026, Cloudflare merged AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane. One binding, one billing, unified observability across Cloudflare's managed GPUs and external providers. Here's what changed and what it means for AI infrastructure decisions.
Read more28 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
All four major clouds shipped agent code sandboxes in the same quarter. Four isolation architectures, four trade-off profiles. Here's the technical comparison and decision framework for Tech Leads picking the right sandbox for their AI stack.
Read more28 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all rebuilding agent runtimes around the session — not the request. Here's what this architectural shift means for teams building production AI systems.
Read more20 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
A deep technical dive into Atlassian's cloud migration journey — stateless compute, Tenant Context Service, CQRS, and why they never rewrote Jira.
Read more23 May 2026 · 11 min read
agents
A Tech Lead's field notes from shipping production AI agents — why custom agents still matter, how to avoid the infra money pit, the architecture pattern that actually works, and why understanding your client matters more than understanding transformers.
Read more07 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Microsoft just released three foundational AI models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2. This isn't just a product launch. It's a strategic shift that every enterprise architect should understand.
Read more03 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
2026
Alibaba just released its third proprietary model in days. Google's Gemini Flash-Lite costs $0.25 per million tokens. NVIDIA's Nemotron runs 2.2x faster than GPT-OSS-120B. The LLM cost war has arrived — here's what it means for architects choosing AI infrastructure in 2026.
Read more29 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google just made Gemini Code Assist free and priced Flash-Lite at $0.25/M tokens. After 15 years building production systems, here's what this cost collapse really changes about how we build.
Read more28 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
GPT-4 level AI cost $30/M tokens in 2023. Today it's under $1. Here's the technical architecture that lets you capture 90%+ of that savings without sacrificing quality.
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