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Writing about the technologies I work with day to day, the practice of using AI as part of the development workflow, and how open source models are changing what's possible.
August 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A practical breakdown of where AI tools like Claude earn their keep in a professional engineering workflow — and where they still need a human in the loop.
July 22, 2026 · 3 min read
From early fine-tuned research checkpoints to today's near-frontier open-weight models — how open source LLMs got competitive, and what that means for teams building on them.
June 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Practical lessons on event-driven architecture, drawn from building order management and resource tracking systems on AWS EventBridge and SQS.
May 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Why pairing a Next.js frontend with a Java/Spring Boot backend is a pragmatic, boring-in-a-good-way choice for systems that need to last.
March 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Notes from building a retrieval-augmented generation proof of concept on Azure OpenAI and vector search — what worked, and where the real engineering effort goes.
February 11, 2026 · 3 min read
A practitioner's comparison of AWS and Azure for cloud-native architecture, after years of shipping production systems on both.