Writing
Notes on building production systems.
Practical writing on what I've learned shipping software — architecture, performance, and the operational tradeoffs that don't usually make it into tutorials.
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Engineering
Scaling Postgres with pgvector — what we learned at 2M embeddings
Lessons from running a production HNSW vector index on Postgres for code search at scale. Recall, latency, and the operational tradeoffs nobody warns you about.
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·7 min read
Cloud
How I cut a startup's AWS Lambda bill by 67%
A practical walkthrough of the four biggest cost wins on serverless: right-sizing memory, ARM architecture, provisioned concurrency, and the invocation patterns nobody profiles.
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·8 min read
Frontend
React Server Components in production — what actually changed
Six months of shipping with the App Router and RSC. The mental model shifts, the gotchas, and the patterns that emerged after the hype settled.
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