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AI EngineeringMar 27, 20268 min read

Building Agentic AI Systems That Actually Work

Most agentic AI demos look impressive but fall apart in production. Lessons from a year of designing reliable agent-based evaluation systems that handle real-world complexity.

Distributed SystemsMar 11, 202610 min read

Lessons from Operating Observability at Scale

Reflections from building and operating observability infrastructure at a cloud-native monitoring platform, covering what we got right, what surprised us, and the patterns that hold up across any monitoring system.

Software EngineeringFeb 17, 20267 min read

The Art of API Design: Making Complex Systems Simple

Good API design is invisible. Users don't notice it. Bad API design creates support tickets. Practical patterns for designing REST and gRPC APIs that developers actually enjoy using.

Machine LearningJan 29, 202612 min read

Understanding Transformer Attention: A Visual Guide

A practical walkthrough of how self-attention works in transformers, why it matters, and how to build intuition for what attention heads actually learn, with visual examples.

Distributed SystemsJan 9, 20269 min read

From Monolith to Microservices: A Practical Migration Story

Everyone talks about microservices like it's a checkbox. The reality is messier. How we migrated a monolithic Java application to microservices without halting feature development.