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Notes from the codebase, numbers included

What worked, what didn't, and what it cost — written by the practice leads who lived it. No thought leadership, no listicles, no AI-generated filler.

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AI EngineeringJune 18, 20269 min read

The unglamorous checklist that gets LLM features into production

Most AI features die between the demo and the deployment. Here's the evaluation, guardrail, and cost work that separates the ones that ship — drawn from a dozen production launches.

Sofia Marchetti — Head of AI Engineering

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ArchitectureMay 27, 202611 min read

Five ways monolith decompositions go wrong (and the boring fixes)

We've been called in to rescue enough stalled microservices migrations to see the patterns. The failures are predictable — which means they're preventable.

David Okonkwo — Principal Architect

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Web PerformanceApril 30, 20268 min read

We measured what Core Web Vitals are actually worth in revenue

Aggregated data from twelve commerce and SaaS replatforms: what a second of LCP is worth, which metric moves conversion most, and where optimization stops paying.

Emma Lindqvist — Web Platform Lead

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ModernizationMarch 19, 202610 min read

How to audit the legacy system everyone is afraid to touch

A practical walkthrough of the two-week assessment we run on twenty-year-old systems — recovering knowledge, mapping risk, and finding the safe first move.

Rachel Donnelly — Modernization Practice Lead

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DesignFebruary 11, 20267 min read

Why most design systems die at version 1.2 — and how to build one that doesn't

Component libraries don't fail for design reasons. They fail for governance ones. Lessons from design systems that survived three years of real product pressure.

Yuki Tanabe — Design Systems Lead

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Cloud & FinOpsJanuary 22, 20269 min read

The 38% cloud bill reduction: an honest anatomy

We keep quoting our median cost-optimization result, so here's exactly where the money comes from — instance by instance, with percentages and the mistakes that put it there.

Anders Vik — Cloud Practice Director