Writing on systems, AI, and shipping software
I build distributed systems and agent fleets, and I write about the unglamorous engineering that actually makes software work at scale. Pieces are grouped below by theme.
Systems
Most sites run a server, a database, and a runtime they never needed. The case for shipping cacheable HTML, and the few pages that earn a server.
One machine fails honestly. A distributed system fails halfway, at 3am. Notes on the failures that will find you and how to survive them.
AI
I turned one overworked assistant into a fleet of narrow agents last quarter. The model was never the hard part. Branch ownership was.
Training gets the headlines. Inference is where the money goes, on every request, forever. What actually drives the bill and which levers move it.