Engineering & AI
Backup Restore Testing: Prove You Can Recover
A practical recovery exercise should test the intended database, preserve editorial state and keep evidence of what worked and what remains unproven.
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Content Migration: Preserve the Editorial State
Preserve published posts, drafts, identities and media during a content migration, with lessons from Vinove’s 217-record blog transition.
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Webhook Reliability: Prevent Duplicate Business Actions
A practical guide to reliable webhook integrations, covering durable receipt, duplicate actions, late events, replay and business-outcome verification.
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Software Product Discovery: Validate Before Development
Use a six-proof discovery record to test the problem, user, outcome, constraints, solution risks and build decision before software development begins.
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AI Evaluations: Test Quality Before You Scale
Build AI evaluations around real tasks, grounded answers, safety and failure segments before a promising pilot becomes a production dependency.
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API-First Modernisation Without a Risky Rewrite
Modernise legacy systems incrementally by separating capabilities behind APIs, protecting critical workflows and replacing components with evidence.
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RAG Explained: Ground Enterprise AI in Trusted Data
Understand how retrieval-augmented generation works, where it helps and what enterprises must engineer for accurate, secure and traceable answers.
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AI Observability: Trace the Model, Data and Tools
Observe AI systems end to end by tracing model, prompt, retrieval, tools, cost, quality and business outcome without over-collecting sensitive data.
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From AI Prototype to Production: The Engineering Gaps
A successful AI demo proves possibility. Production readiness requires reliable data, evaluation, security, observability and a clear operating owner.
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Is Your Legacy Stack Ready for AI?
Assess whether legacy systems can support AI through accessible data, stable APIs, identity controls, observability and a manageable change path.
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Agents: Choose the Right Pattern
Compare RAG, fine-tuning and agents by the problem they solve: knowledge access, stable behaviour or multi-step tool orchestration.
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AI Agents in Production: A Practical Architecture
Design production AI agents with bounded roles, controlled tools, durable state, layered evaluation and explicit human authority.
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Technical Debt Prioritisation: A Decision Framework
Prioritise technical debt by connecting engineering friction to customer impact, delivery risk and the next business decision.
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