IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
905 articles
28 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 10 of 12 — How AI transforms the DevOps/Platform Engineer role: AI-assisted pipeline generation, incident diagnosis, capacity planning, GitOps automation, and the operational judgment that keeps systems running and teams unblocked.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
ai
Machine learning, LLMs, embeddings, and RAG — explained without hype. Two tech leads break down what AI actually does, using analogies about libraries, pattern matching, and really smart parrots.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
ai
How to use Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools as your personal English tutor. Prompt templates, role-play scenarios, and daily AI workflows for busy professionals.
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 more27 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
azure
Part 2 of 7 — From zero to a working Azure Foundry Voice Live connection in under 30 minutes. Covers resource provisioning, region selection for minimum latency, authentication, and your Next.js project scaffold.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Part 9 of 12 — How AI transforms the Security Engineer role: AI-assisted threat modelling, automated SAST/DAST pipelines, dependency scanning, security policy generation, and the human security judgment that keeps systems and users safe.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
azure
Bonus Part 8 — Testing real-time voice AI is notoriously hard. Learn strategies for mocking, latency benchmarking, and LLM-as-judge evaluation. Then build a transcript analysis system that generates a scored interview report with specific action items.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 30 min read
nextjs
Part 4 of 9 — Implementing production-grade SEO for marketing websites: dynamic metadata from Umbraco, JSON-LD structured data, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, Open Graph, Core Web Vitals optimization, and Lighthouse 100.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
devops
Docker and Kubernetes explained like you're having coffee with a friend. No jargon walls — just real analogies about shipping containers, apartments, and why 'works on my machine' is everyone's least favorite sentence.
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