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Issues tagged engineering

6 issues on this topic.

Issue 012

The Technical Debt Payoff Calculation—When to Refactor and When to Move On

Just pay down the technical debt - easy to say. Knowing whether to spend 3 weeks refactoring or 3 days building the next feature is the hard part.

engineeringarchitecturedecision-making
5 min read
Issue 011

Designing Data Pipelines That Won't Break at 2 AM

Real-time ETL pipelines sound great until you are debugging why 500k records disappeared. We share the principles that make data pipelines reliable, observable, and survivable.

engineeringdatainfrastructure
3 min read
Issue 010

MLOps for the Impatient—Getting Models to Production Without Losing Your Mind

ML workflows are chaos. We share the minimal MLOps stack that actually works—experiment tracking, automated retraining, model versioning, and monitoring in 48 lines of Python.

engineeringmlopsmachine-learning
2 min read
Issue 009

Multi-Cloud Architecture—Patterns, Pitfalls, and When to Go All-In

The multi-cloud dream sounds great until you are debugging a network issue that spans three continents. We share patterns from enterprises running production systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

engineeringcloudinfrastructure
5 min read
Issue 008

Building Agentic AI Systems at Scale

From proof-of-concept to production—how to architect multi-agent AI systems that reason, integrate with enterprise APIs, and deliver explainable results.

engineeringaiarchitecture
3 min read
Issue 002

What a design system is actually for

A design system is not a colour palette. It is a set of decisions you agree to stop re-making. Notes from consolidating one across twenty pages.

design-systemsfrontendengineering
4 min read