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AI engineering, databases, cloud platforms, system design, fundamentals, and field notes.
AI Engineering
Agents, context engineering, harness design, MCP, evaluation, token efficiency, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- AI Token Cost Is the New Cloud Bill
- Build vs Buy: The AI Platform Architecture Decision
- AI Governance for Engineering Teams: Preventing Shadow AI Spend Without Blocking Innovation
Databases
PostgreSQL, Aurora, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB, pgvector, replication, migrations, indexing, and database operations.
- Datadog DBM: What Database Teams Should Actually Monitor
- Why Database Engineers Should Care About AI Cost Engineering
- How to Run a Database Cost & Reliability Review
Cloud & Platform
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Cloudflare, developer platforms, and operational control planes.
- The Math Behind Database Reserved Instances: When to Wait
- BigQuery Cost Optimization: On-Demand vs Slot Commitments
- Database Licensing Cost Across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
System Design
Architecture reviews, scalability, failure modes, guardrails, distributed systems, reliability boundaries, and production tradeoffs.
- Why Your Non-Prod Databases Cost as Much as Production
- 330 Redundant Data Centers All Failed Simultaneously — Because They Were Identical
- The End of Single-Signal Alerting: Correlating Metrics, Logs, Traces, Deployments, and Cost
Engineering Fundamentals
Core engineering principles, debugging workflows, observability, performance basics, reviews, and practical operating habits.
- AI Cost Observability Dashboard: LangSmith vs Helicone
- Alert Fatigue Engineering: How to Build Fewer, Better, Actionable Alerts
- Cost Observability: Build Dashboards That Show Waste Before Finance Finds It
Field Notes
Short practical observations, checklists, production lessons, debugging notes, and decision patterns from real engineering work.
- Datadog DBM: What Database Teams Should Actually Monitor
- AI Token Cost Is the New Cloud Bill
- Why Database Engineers Should Care About AI Cost Engineering