Engineering Research
First-hand engineering notes from production systems — AI pipelines, fintech infrastructure, and performance work. No theory. No fluff.
How to keep a real-time exchange platform responsive under load — the specific caching strategy, queue design, and database access patterns that actually move the needle.
Demos are easy. Production is not. After shipping multiple LLM systems, here's the real failure taxonomy — and how to fix each one before it hits your users.
A post-mortem on tripling the throughput of a multi-chain transaction routing layer — the actual bottlenecks, what we tried that didn't work, and the changes that did.