Tag
Engineering
9 posts
Engineering practices, technical debt, code quality and teams.
Feature flags in production: risk management without slowing development
Feature flag implementation patterns, lifecycle management, stale flag debt, and LaunchDarkly alternatives for teams that deploy to production frequently.
The real cost of technical debt
Technical debt doesn't appear on the balance sheet, but it erodes speed, reliability, and innovation capacity across the entire organization. Here's how to quantify and manage it.
Technical Due Diligence for Investors: What to Check Before Investing
Technical due diligence guide for investors. Code quality, architecture review, scalability, tech debt quantification, and team evaluation.
AI-Native Architectures: Designing Systems Where AI Is a First-Class Citizen
How to design systems where AI is not bolted on but a central component. Data flow, feedback loops, and human-AI collaboration patterns.
Technology Stack Selection: Decision Framework for 2025
Beyond features: team familiarity, hiring market, ecosystem maturity, maintenance costs, and lock-in in stack selection.
Hexagonal Architecture in Practice: Ports, Adapters and When to Use Them
When hexagonal architecture is overkill, how to refactor toward it incrementally, testing strategies, and real project structure.
Zero Downtime Deployment: Strategies for Never Stopping Production
Zero downtime deployment strategies: blue-green, rolling, canary. Database migrations without interruption, session handling, and rollback in production.
Railway and Modern PaaS: WordPress Deployments That Scale
Railway as an alternative to traditional hosting and Kubernetes for WordPress and Next.js. Architecture, real costs and lessons from production deployments.
API-First: How to Design Services Built for Integration
API-first design with OpenAPI, versioning, error conventions and docs-as-code. A practical guide for engineering teams.