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Insights from the Build Floor

Engineering deep-dives, AI research notes, and lessons learned from building production systems for ambitious companies.

AI & ML

12 min

Building Production RAG Pipelines: Lessons from 30 Deployments

After deploying retrieval-augmented generation systems for 30 different clients, here are the patterns that consistently work — and the ones that look great in demos but collapse under real load.

Next.js at Scale: Our Performance Playbook for Sub-Second LCP

How we consistently hit sub-second Largest Contentful Paint across enterprise Next.js applications — covering streaming SSR, edge caching, image pipelines, and bundle analysis.

Priya Sharma

Feb 24, 2026

Cloud & DevOps9 min

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: How We Cut Cloud Spend by 40%

Most teams overprovision their Kubernetes clusters by a staggering margin. We share the strategies and tooling we use to right-size workloads and eliminate waste without sacrificing reliability.

Ananya DesaiJan 15, 2026

Product8 min

Designing AI Products That Users Actually Trust

Trust is the bottleneck for AI product adoption, not capability. We break down the UX patterns and transparency mechanisms that move users from skepticism to confidence.

Kavita IyerDec 2, 2025

Engineering11 min

Migrating to Event-Driven Architecture Without Stopping the Train

Rewriting a monolith into event-driven microservices sounds great on a whiteboard. Here is how we actually do it in production — incrementally, safely, and without a feature freeze.

Arjun MehtaOct 20, 2025

AI & ML10 min

Building an LLM Evaluation Framework That Actually Works in Production

Vibe-checking LLM outputs does not scale. We share our battle-tested evaluation framework that catches regressions before they reach users and keeps model upgrades safe.

Vikram PatelAug 14, 2025

Company10 min

Scaling Engineering Culture Through Hypergrowth: What We Got Right and Wrong

Growing from 12 to 85 engineers in 18 months tested every assumption we had about culture. These are the practices that survived and the ones we had to abandon.

Priya SharmaJul 10, 2025

Cloud & DevOps9 min

Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Experience That Sticks

Internal platforms fail when they are built like infrastructure projects instead of products. Here is how we approach platform engineering with a product mindset that drives real adoption.

Rahul NairJun 28, 2025