LLM App Production Checklist: Cost, Caching, Retries, and Safety
Eleven practices that keep an LLM feature alive in production, ranked by impact, each with a wrong example,…
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AI systems, platform engineering and architecture. Lessons from 13+ years of building at scale.
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AI in Email Marketing: For High-Performance Campaigns
Discover how the AI in Email Marketing enables faster content creation, smarter segmentation, and automated variations directly within…
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How to Run a Project Kickoff That Sets Engineers Up to Succeed
Learn how to run a project kickoff that works: a charter, a 90-minute agenda with timings, an assumptions…
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Profiling and Performance Tuning Basics in Java
Executive Summary: Java performance tuning works best as a loop: reproduce under steady state, set a baseline, profile,…
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How to Test and Evaluate LLM Applications in Python
Separate deterministic tests from evals, build a golden dataset, score with code before judges, and read pass rates…
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Instantly Edit Websites with Chrome designMode
Use Chrome document.designMode for temporary copy and layout mockups. Steps, limits, a11y warnings, and when to use DevTools…
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How to Communicate with Senior Stakeholders Effectively
Learn how to communicate with senior stakeholders using the pyramid principle, a weekly update template, and escalation paths…
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Hugo Site with Updated Hugo Docker Image
Build and run a Hugo site with an updated Docker image. Dockerfile, build steps, and a clean local-to-container…
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How to Build an MCP Server in Python
Expose your own tools and data to AI assistants through the Model Context Protocol: a complete Python server,…
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Garbage Collection in Java: Generations, Collectors, and Tuning
Executive Summary: Java garbage collection reclaims objects no GC root can reach and organizes the heap by age…
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How to Build Accountability Without Micromanaging
Learn how to build accountability without micromanaging with RACI ownership, a definition of done, and checkpoints instead of…
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JVM Memory Areas and Class Loaders: Heap, Stack, Metaspace, and Execution
Executive Summary: When java Main runs, class loaders load your code, the JVM stores data in distinct memory…
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The Future of Sales: How AI in CRM is Redefining the Pipeline
Archived overview of AI features showing up in CRM sales pipelines. Kept for reference; not a current focus…
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How to Give Difficult Feedback to Engineers
Learn how to give difficult feedback to engineers with the SBI model, scripts, and follow-up templates that keep…
