From the engineering studio

Engineering notes.
Thought through. Written down.

Architecture, implementation, and the tradeoffs in between. Notes for people who care about how software works.

AI ENGINEERING4 MIN READ

Your AI agent needs an authority model, not another prompt.

Designing tool boundaries, review gates, and recoverable execution for AI that can change real systems.

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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS4 MIN READ

The request timed out. Did the work happen?

Idempotency, transactional outboxes, and the uncomfortable space between a failed response and a failed operation.

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WEB PERFORMANCE4 MIN READ

Performance is a product behaviour, not a Lighthouse score.

A practical way to budget main-thread work, measure interaction latency, and keep rich interfaces responsive.

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