Docker CI/CD for Small Teams: Ship Daily Without a DevOps Department
4 min readDevOps
You do not need Kubernetes and a platform team to deploy calmly. A pragmatic pipeline: build once, promote the same image, roll back in seconds.
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Practical notes on full-stack engineering, AI integration, backend architecture and the decisions behind production software.
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Celery and RabbitMQ: Getting Long Running Work Out of the Request Cycle
4 min readBackend
The moment a request does more than read and write a few rows, it belongs in a queue. A field guide to background jobs that do not lose work.
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Building a Production RAG Assistant: 7 Lessons From a Real Product
5 min readAI Engineering
RAG demos take a weekend. RAG products take discipline. Seven hard won lessons from shipping an LLM assistant that real users depend on every day.
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The Next.js SEO Checklist I Use on Every Project
5 min readNext.js
Server rendering alone does not rank you. The complete technical SEO checklist covering metadata, structured data, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals and AEO, with the Next.js specifics.
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Payments7 min read
Stripe Subscriptions in Production: Access, Webhooks and Recovery
A practical billing review: define product access, accept events durably, reconcile state and rehearse the failures customers encounter.
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Databases7 min read
8 PostgreSQL Fixes for Slow Dashboards
Find where a dashboard spends its time, then investigate queries, indexes, pagination, payloads and connections with comparable measurements.
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AI Engineering4 min read
Serving a Custom ML Model in Production: The Plumbing Nobody Talks About
The data scientists hand you a model that works in a notebook. Making it survive real traffic, uploads, GPUs, queues and versioning is a different job entirely.
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Backend6 min read
Django vs FastAPI: How I Choose for Client Projects
I have shipped production systems with both. The honest answer to which one is better is a decision tree, not a fan war. Here is mine.
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For Founders7 min read
How Much Does a SaaS MVP Cost? Scope, Estimates and Tradeoffs
Turn an ambiguous product idea into a comparable proposal with explicit scope, an illustrative effort breakdown and a separate operating budget.
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For Founders6 min read
Adding AI to Your SaaS: Scope, Risks and Launch Checklist
A founder’s guide to adding AI to an existing SaaS: choose one workflow, define permissions and acceptance criteria, then plan a controlled rollout.
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Web Development9 min read
Next.js vs React: Which One Should You Use for Your Project?
React and Next.js are not rivals, one is built on the other. A plain English guide to what each one gives you and the single question that decides which your project needs.
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AI for Business9 min read
Should You Add an AI Chatbot to Your Website? An Honest Guide
What a modern AI assistant genuinely does for a business, what it will never fix, the hallucination problem nobody demos, and a four-question test for whether your site should have one.
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Business8 min read
How to Write a Project Brief a Developer Can Actually Quote
Two hours, no money, no technical knowledge, and it changes every quote you receive. The eight-section brief template that makes developers comparable and projects survivable.
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Business8 min read
Fixed Price or Hourly: How to Pay a Developer Without Getting Burned
Neither pricing model protects you. The match between the model and the type of work does. What each model really trades, where each fails, and the milestone hybrid that usually beats both.
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Business8 min read
My Developer Disappeared: How to Rescue a Half-Finished Project
It feels like a unique catastrophe. It is one of the most common events in software. The exact sequence: secure what exists, assess the damage, choose a continuation developer, and never repeat it.
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Business10 min read
How to Hire a Full Stack Developer: A Founder's Guide
How to evaluate a developer when you cannot judge their code: the one-page brief, the paid trial, the red flags, and what good actually looks like. From someone on both sides of the table.
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Editable checklists for scoping a new build or taking control of an unfinished one.