IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
06 Mar 2026 · 14 min read
devops
Part 6 of 8 — Scaling from 10 sessions/week to 200 concurrent. The enrichment bottleneck (30,000 API calls), session recovery for dropped WebRTC connections, provider failover, and the operational metrics that keep it all visible.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
ai
How to build, maintain, and govern shared AI skill libraries for teams. Covers skill catalogs, onboarding workflows, quality gates, and practical governance frameworks.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
automation
Move beyond vanity metrics. Learn to track test coverage, defect escape rate, flakiness, and automation ROI. Build a quality dashboard and run retrospectives that drive real improvement. Part 9 of the QC team's guide to automation with AI.
Read more05 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 · 10 min read
ai
Part 2 of 8 — Before you write a single line of migration code, you need to know what you have. How to use AI to audit a legacy Umbraco project, score complexity, estimate effort, and produce the assessment document that drives every decision that follows.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
aeo
The definitive guide to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2026. Learn how to get your content cited by ChatGPT, appear in Google AI Overviews, and be recommended by Perplexity and Claude. Part 8 of the SEO Leader's Complete Playbook.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
career
A mock system design interview between two tech leads. Learn the framework, the mistakes, and the thinking process that interviewers actually look for — in plain conversational English.
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 more05 Mar 2026 · 11 min read
business-development
Essential English frameworks for winning new projects: first client meetings, project bid presentations, technical interviews, proposal writing, and handling tough evaluation questions.
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