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The Tier Nobody Switched On

The Tier Nobody Switched On

Two parts built measuring instruments and never ran them. Pointing them at five thousand people found a uniqueness rule that made a member arriving twice unrecordable — and underneath it, the cheapest matching tier in the platform, written in Part 3 and called from nowhere since

October 4, 2026·24 min read

The Pipeline Ships

The Pipeline Ships

The whole platform had been running end to end for six parts, inside a single HTTP request handler — and the expensive part of giving it an orchestrator was everything that handler had been quietly guaranteeing

September 20, 2026·15 min read

When the Wrong Answer Is a Person

When the Wrong Answer Is a Person

Most agent guidance assumes the failure mode is a bad answer. In the domains agents are actually being pointed at, the failure mode has a name, an address, and a prescription they can't fill.

September 20, 2026·16 min read

The Rules That No Longer Exist

The Rules That No Longer Exist

Every guide this year tells you how to build an agent harness. None of them tell you what a harness becomes — and my own team ran that experiment all the way to the end, starting in 2006.

September 19, 2026·17 min read

You Can't Run What You Can't See

You Can't Run What You Can't See

The audit trail could record everything a file did and nothing a person did — and the constraint that caused it was a decision I was proud of five parts ago

September 12, 2026·15 min read

The Letter That Does All the Work

The Letter That Does All the Work

One letter separates the AI already in your pocket from the AGI everyone keeps promising — and every lab has quietly defined that letter to suit its own bet

September 9, 2026·11 min read

The Score That Earns the Merge

The Score That Earns the Merge

Weights measured rather than chosen, a database constraint that would have rejected every row this part writes, and a scorer that has never scored anything real

August 30, 2026·20 min read

The File That Says You're Covered

The File That Says You're Covered

A forty-year-old format, a law that froze it, and the date convention that quietly uninsures people

August 23, 2026·19 min read

AI Proposes, Rules Dispose

AI Proposes, Rules Dispose

Rules that live in a table, a measurement that came back empty, and the rule that can never fire

August 22, 2026·22 min read

The Agent That Understands Healthcare

The Agent That Understands Healthcare

Proposals over answers, forced tools over chat, and the two bugs that survived a green test suite

August 15, 2026·18 min read

The Five-Minute Wall

The Five-Minute Wall

AI agents won't replace your doctor. But they might give your doctor back the five minutes they lost to a keyboard.

August 15, 2026·26 min read

The Scarce Ingredient

The Scarce Ingredient

A self-paced path into AI agents for clinicians and healthcare operators — no framework required

August 15, 2026·8 min read

Parsing the Unparseable

Parsing the Unparseable

A state machine, a forty-year-old header, and the bug that would have given four people the same identity

August 9, 2026·20 min read

The Schema That Remembers

The Schema That Remembers

Identity resolution, three clocks, and a test suite that only fails on the second run

August 8, 2026·23 min read

Data Is the Product

Data Is the Product

Building a healthcare data platform from scratch — and writing the story as it ships

August 2, 2026·15 min read

The Patterns That Persist

The Patterns That Persist

Enterprise architecture patterns from the .NET era — alive and well in a Python AI platform

August 2, 2026·19 min read

The System Design That Ties It Together

The System Design That Ties It Together

Designing a real-time eligibility verification service — from the first request to a million

April 24, 2026·24 min read

The Numbers Every Architect Should Know

The Numbers Every Architect Should Know

Latency, availability, cloud economics, AI inference — the reference card you wish you'd carried into every design review

April 19, 2026·30 min read

The Subsystems That Hold

The Subsystems That Hold

Load balancers, CDN edge caching, and the monitoring setup that tells you the next bottleneck is coming

April 11, 2026·20 min read

The Numbers Behind the Architecture

The Numbers Behind the Architecture

From 50 requests per second to 500,000 — every stage of the scaling journey, with the actual configs, queries, and decisions

March 26, 2026·32 min read

Architecture That Ships

Architecture That Ships

MVP thinking, delivery discipline, and designing for the age of AI

March 24, 2026·19 min read

When Everything Breaks

When Everything Breaks

Redundancy, fault tolerance, and the discipline of assuming your own system will fail

March 23, 2026·23 min read

The Architecture Nobody Notices

The Architecture Nobody Notices

Scaling, performance, and the decisions that disappear when they work

March 22, 2026·20 min read

The Code You Don't Ship

The Code You Don't Ship

On tests, trust, and the strange discipline of writing code that exists only to protect other code

March 16, 2026·12 min read

Enterprise Product Is a Different Sport

Enterprise Product Is a Different Sport

When your user isn't your buyer, your roadmap isn't your strategy, and your demo doesn't close the deal

March 6, 2026·15 min read

Product Thinking for Engineers

Product Thinking for Engineers

Why the best engineers think like product managers — and why most product managers think like project managers

February 27, 2026·19 min read

Systems That Last

Systems That Last

The architecture decisions that matter in five years are the ones nobody writes blog posts about

February 22, 2026·28 min read

AI Agents in Production: What Actually Ships

AI Agents in Production: What Actually Ships

The gap between a compelling demo and a reliable production system is where most agent projects go to die

February 19, 2026·19 min read

The Ground Is Shifting

The Ground Is Shifting

What AI's acceleration means for engineers, managers, and everyone who works on a screen

February 13, 2026·11 min read

AI and Platform Engineering

AI and Platform Engineering

A practical guide to where AI fits — and where it doesn't — in building developer platforms

February 11, 2026·17 min read

Coding With AI: What Actually Works

Coding With AI: What Actually Works

A practical guide to the workflows, habits, and mindset that make AI your best pair programmer

February 7, 2026·8 min read

A Practical Guide to OCR in Python

A Practical Guide to OCR in Python

Extract text from images and PDFs using Tesseract, with preprocessing techniques that actually matter

January 28, 2026·10 min read

Building Resilient Engineering Teams

Building Resilient Engineering Teams

What 22 years in tech taught me about the teams that survive—and the ones that don't

January 18, 2026·8 min read

The Practices That Separate Good Developers from Great Ones

The Practices That Separate Good Developers from Great Ones

What I learned from studying engineering cultures at Google, Netflix, Amazon, Stripe, and others—and why most teams never adopt these habits

January 18, 2026·20 min read