System Design
Jan 25, 2026
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4 min read
Issue #025: Solving the "Thundering Herd" problem with Jitter.
Career & Mindset
Jan 24, 2026
Issue #024: How the "XY Problem" kills team velocity.
Failure Friday
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Jan 23, 2026
Issue #023: Why relying on "App Logic" for security is a design failure.
AI Engineering
Jan 22, 2026
Issue #022: The difference between Pre-filtering and Post-filtering (and why it matters).
Jan 21, 2026
5 min read
Issue #021: Why Vector Search is superficial, and how to fix it.
Jan 20, 2026
Issue #020: Why traditional Unit Tests fail for AI, and how to write "Evals."
Software Engineering
Jan 19, 2026
Issue #019: How to speed up your RAG pipeline by 5x using asyncio.
Jan 18, 2026
Issue #018: How to scale a database when one user is bigger than the rest.
Jan 17, 2026
Issue #017: The high cost of "Resume Driven Development."
DevOps & Infrastructure
Jan 16, 2026
Issue #016: Why DNS is the scariest part of the stack.
