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Notes from the builders.

Things we have learned shipping AI, security, and cloud-native products. No buzzwords, just things we wish we had known earlier.

Shipping AI Features That Actually Compound
AI

Shipping AI Features That Actually Compound

Why most AI features stall after launch, and the three product loops that keep ours improving every week.

7 min·May 12, 2026Read
Zero-Trust Without Slowing Down Engineers
Security

Zero-Trust Without Slowing Down Engineers

A practical guide to rolling out zero-trust networking on a real product team, without the politics and the painful developer experience.

9 min·Apr 28, 2026Read
The Five Nines Myth: What 99.999% Uptime Really Costs
Cloud

The Five Nines Myth: What 99.999% Uptime Really Costs

How HostPepper hit genuine reliability goals and why your product probably does not need five nines to deliver a great experience.

11 min·Mar 18, 2026Read
RAG Is Not a Feature. It Is a System.
AI

RAG Is Not a Feature. It Is a System.

A breakdown of the retrieval, ranking, and evaluation layers that separate production RAG from demo RAG.

14 min·Mar 5, 2026Read
How We Cut Page Weight by 46%
Performance

How We Cut Page Weight by 46%

A case study in performance discipline: image budgets, edge caching, and the unglamorous wins that moved the number.

8 min·Feb 14, 2026Read
Designing Match Scores That Humans Trust
AI / UX

Designing Match Scores That Humans Trust

Showing confidence intervals, explanations, and counter-examples: the UX of AI ranking systems done right.

6 min·Jan 22, 2026Read
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