Bootstrapping a new service from a template isn't just renaming things — it's wiring it into the deployment pipeline, getting dependency management right, and building the scaffolding that makes all future work faster.…
Cross-service work: shipping an end-to-end conversational flight search flow, instrumenting an MCP server with privacy-aware observability, improving AI coding assistant context injection, and cleaning up inconsistent naming across the codebase.…
Time spent fixing a flaky release pipeline sounds like a lot of infrastructure work. Here's why its effects on a team are easy to undercount.…
Repos got granular Dependabot grouping and a shared error library got a missing origin type. Neither is glamorous — both are the kind of thing that keeps a platform manageable.…
A booking interface was showing a queue warning banner after it should have disappeared. The fix was small; the pattern it points to is worth thinking about.…
Adding a conversational search endpoint to a fare search service raised an interesting question: what does a response shape optimised for an AI assistant look like, versus one optimised for UI code?…
A reflection on where coordination logic should live when building AI assistants into production systems — and why application-layer orchestration beats prompt-driven coordination.…
On removing feature flags that had outlived their purpose. Not glamorous, but this kind of cleanup is what keeps a codebase navigable over the long run.…