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Reverse Proxy, Load Balancer, and API Gateway: What They Do and When to Use Them
A practical guide to the benefits of reverse proxies, load balancers, and API gateways, with clear rules for when and how to use each one.
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Thoughts on AI agents, governance, and engineering
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Getting Visibility in Your Deployed Platform: Monitoring, Logging, and Error Tracking
A practical blueprint for seeing what your deployed platform is doing with Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Terraform.
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A Practical Guide to Fine-Tuning AI Models
Fine-tuning is the highest-leverage skill most developers are still outsourcing to a blog post they read six months ago. Here is a hands-on guide —...
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The End of the Cheap Coding Plan
Generous flat-rate AI coding plans were always a VC-subsidized bridge, not a business model. Here is what is breaking, why it was inevitable, and h...
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AI Agent Cost Management: A Practical Guide to Keeping Your AI Spend Under Control
AI agents are powerful but expensive at scale. Here's a practical guide to managing costs with the latest 2026 models -- from model tiering with GP...
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Spec-Driven Development in the AI Era
AI coding agents are powerful but directionless without structure. Spec-driven development gives them the guardrails they need. A practical guide t...