IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
904 articles
19 Feb 2026 · 25 min read
architecture
Part 3 of 7 — Command/Query separation for Kids Learn, pipeline behaviors, the MediatR licensing debate, Wolverine as the modern alternative, and the Repository Pattern in 2026.
Read more19 Feb 2026 · 11 min read
ai
Part 2 of 5 — VS Code extension setup, Command Palette workflows, inline diffs, @-mentions for file context, multi-tab conversations, auto-accept mode, Extended Thinking, and the daily habits that actually stick.
Read more19 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
leadership
A practical strategy for choosing what to test first, production monitoring with Checkly, knowledge base accuracy tracking, team adoption, and building a quality culture when your app uses AI. Part 4 of the series.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 21 min read
ai
A complete reference guide to Cloudflare's free and low-cost services for three use cases: self-hosting homelab services, building full-stack web apps on the edge, and running AI workloads. Pricing tables, free tier limits, and use-case mappings — all in one place.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 7 min read
ai-ml
Part 6 of 10 — Build AI-powered educational content with Amazon Bedrock, train custom models on SageMaker, implement RAG pipelines with Knowledge Bases for Bedrock, and create personalized learning paths with Amazon Personalize.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
api-gateway
Part 4 of 10 — Build the Kids Learn backend with API Gateway HTTP APIs, Lambda functions for CRUD operations, and ECS Fargate for long-running AI inference. Includes VPC networking, cold start optimization, and container deployment.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
aurora
Part 5 of 10 — Aurora Serverless v2 with pgvector for vector search, DynamoDB for session events, ElastiCache Redis for caching, RDS Proxy for connection pooling, and data modeling patterns for educational SaaS.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 7 min read
aws
Part 7 of 10 — Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with CodePipeline, run tests and builds with CodeBuild, manage Docker images with ECR, implement blue/green deployments for ECS Fargate, and automate infrastructure changes with CDK Pipelines.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 11 min read
amplify
Part 3 of 10 — Deploy Next.js with SSR on AWS Amplify Gen 2, serve static assets from S3 with CloudFront CDN, configure custom domains with ACM certificates, and implement cache invalidation strategies.
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