Engineering decisions.
Explained in practice.
Practical guides to reliable systems, from tenant isolation and integrations to AI retrieval and product operations.
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Start with the challenge you need to solve.
AI, RAG & Vector Search
Grounded AI systems, from ingestion and embeddings to retrieval, evaluation and safe agent execution.
02Cloud, DevOps & Kubernetes
Practical reliability, delivery, observability and capacity decisions for production systems.
03E-commerce Engineering
Reliable Salla, Zid and Shopify integrations across webhooks, orders, inventory, payments and loyalty.
04APIs, SaaS & System Architecture
Multi-tenant boundaries, API contracts, distributed consistency and integration architecture.
05Product Engineering
Turning product assumptions into measurable, accessible and reversible delivery decisions.

Saudi deepfake campaign: build verification into products
A source-backed analysis of Saudi Arabia’s deepfake campaign and an auditable media-verification design for product and commerce teams.

GitLab CVE-2026-110264: patch the critical RCE safely
A practical, evidence-led upgrade and investigation guide for GitLab’s unauthenticated CVSS 10.0 RCE patch.

RAG context construction: pack evidence, not chunks
A production guide to turning retrieved candidates into a governed, token-budgeted, citation-ready evidence packet.

Salla order auto-assignment: reliable employee routing
A production architecture for managing Salla employee-assignment rules as desired state, proving outcomes on orders and preventing silent routing drift.

curl 8.23.0: patch the HTTP/2 upload use-after-free
A source-backed response guide to curl 8.23.0 and the High-severity HTTP/2 upload use-after-free, from exposure analysis to fleet verification.

GPT-6.1 Terra computer use: build a guarded action loop
A source-backed production guide to GPT-6.1 Terra for visual and computer-use workflows, from routing and isolation to approvals, verification and rollback.

Salla light orders: hydrate data without N+1 storms
A production architecture for replacing Salla's retired expanded order response with bounded, observable and recoverable resource hydration.

NGINX October 2026 security update: patch all five paths
A production guide to upgrading NGINX 1.30.6/1.31.7+, auditing feature exposure, canarying HTTP/3 and TLS behavior, and proving every serving instance is fixed.

Secure RAG ingestion: quarantine documents before indexing
A production architecture for quarantining untrusted documents, preserving provenance and preventing retrieved content from becoming privileged instructions.

Salla shipment pickup time: make the handoff auditable
A practical guide to turning Salla's actual pickup timestamp into auditable carrier handoff evidence instead of another fragile status update.

Apache Tomcat October 2026 security update: patch and verify
A source-backed production guide to the October 2026 Apache Tomcat security batch, fixed versions, exposure conditions, safe rollout and fleet verification.

Anthropic API 2026-10-21: migrate contracts without outages
A production migration plan for Anthropic API 2026-10-21, major SDK changes, contract tests, canaries, observability and rollback.
