Series

Curated engineering reading paths

Virtual series that group existing posts into practical paths without changing individual article frontmatter.

AI Cost Engineering

AI developer tools are no longer productivity add-ons. They are usage-based infrastructure with real OPEX profiles. This series applies cloud cost engineering methods to the AI developer tooling layer: token budget design, context window optimization, model tiering, observability pipelines, governance runbooks, and procurement due diligence.

14 posts · Start: AI Token Cost Overruns: Why AI Coding Assistants Are Becoming the New Cloud Bill Problem

AI Engineering

AI Engineering Operating Model

How to run AI-assisted engineering as a governed operating model: agent loops, context, evals, permissions, control planes, and review boundaries.

60 posts · Start: The Database Observability Baseline: What Every DBA Dashboard Must Show

Databases

Database Reliability Playbook

Operational workflows for diagnosing, recovering, and preventing database incidents across slow queries, backups, replication, autovacuum, migrations, and capacity pressure.

57 posts · Start: PostgreSQL Slow Query Triage Workflow

Databases

Database Observability Playbook

A complete guide to monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB at scale.

5 posts · Start: PostgreSQL Monitoring: The Dashboard That Surfaces Problems Before Users Do

AI Engineering

Observability 2024–2026

Three years of production observability: from building the first database dashboard, through AI-assisted incident triage, to autonomous SRE agents that observe themselves.

15 posts · Start: The Database Observability Baseline: What Every DBA Dashboard Must Show

Cloud & Platform

Cloud Platform Architecture

Reference architectures and operating boundaries for cloud platforms, managed databases, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, and multi-region systems.

73 posts · Start: Cloud Database Cost Engineering: How to Reduce Database, Data Warehouse, and Licensing Spend Across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI

Databases

Vector Search Systems

Retrieval architecture across pgvector, hybrid search, embeddings, GPU databases, and the operational boundaries around AI database access.

14 posts · Start: CPU vs GPU vs TPU Explained for Database Engineers

System Design

System Design for Database Engineers

System design notes centered on data boundaries, failure modes, consistency, queues, caches, backpressure, capacity, and database-backed product workflows.

98 posts · Start: CPU vs GPU vs TPU Explained for Database Engineers

Fundamentals

Architecture Review Checklists

Review prompts and decision frameworks for architecture, database, security, cloud, automation, and AI access decisions before they become production risk.

31 posts · Start: SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migration Cost Defense Checklist

Cloud & Platform

Cloud Database Cost Engineering

Database and data-platform cost reduction across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. From DWU right-sizing to Azure Hybrid Benefit and Oracle BYOL.

60 posts · Start: Cloud Database Cost Engineering: How to Reduce Database, Data Warehouse, and Licensing Spend Across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI