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Notes from production.

Architecture decisions I had to live with — event-driven systems, migrations that couldn't go down, and where AI actually earns its place on a team of six.

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Architecture01text only

01Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min readEvent-driven without the chaosDedup keys, idempotency and circuit breakers — the three pieces that turned a flaky integration layer into one I stopped getting paged about.

Data02text only

02Jun 09, 2026 · 1 min readZero-downtime migration, MongoDB to PostgresDual writes, a background backfill, and the read-path switch. What I'd do differently on the next one.

Practice03text only

03Apr 06, 2026 · 1 min readShipping 30% faster with AI in the loopWhere Claude Code and Cursor genuinely pay off on a team of six — and the review habits that keep quality from sliding.

Realtime04text only

04Feb 11, 2026 · 1 min readStreaming LLMs into a phone callLatency budgets for a voice agent: token streaming, TTS chunking, and the barge-in problem nobody warns you about.

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