Blog
Notes on building software, scaling teams, and shipping product.
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SaaS PlatformPlatform Engineering Without a Platform Team
The industry turned platform engineering into a hiring decision. It isn't. The minimum viable platform I run on Keaz across twelve services — no platform team — and when to finally hire one.
10 min#Platform Engineering#DevOps#Docker Swarm#DORA
SaaS PlatformHow I Ingest Webhooks Without Losing Events
A webhook handler that does real work inline is a data-loss bug waiting for a traffic spike. The durable pattern I run on Keaz — persist, queue, process idempotently — and where it breaks.
9 min#SaaS Architecture#Webhooks#Event-Driven#Postgres
Cloud & DevOpsFour Capabilities a Small Team Needs Before It Scales AI Coding
AI raised throughput and cut stability in 2026. The four delivery capabilities that let a five-person team absorb AI-generated code without an incident spike — no platform team required.
8 min#Cloud#DevOps#Platform Engineering#DORA
SaaS PlatformThe Fractional CTO in 2026 Is a Person Plus an AI Agent Team
The 2026 fractional CTO isn't an advisor — it's a senior operator plus an AI agent team. The DORA data behind the shift, and five questions that separate operators from part-time advisors.
9 min#Fractional CTO#AI Agents#Founder Strategy#DORA
AI EngineeringPer-User Token Budgets: The Backend Layer That Survives Billing Changes
A backend budget-enforcement layer for AI products: meter per-user token spend, step models down, and degrade gracefully so a vendor credit cap never takes your product offline.
10 min#AI Engineering#Token Economics#Cost Control#Graceful Degradation
AI EngineeringThe Memory Architecture Behind chays.ai: Tiered State, Not a Growing Prompt
The tiered memory architecture behind chays.ai — core, recall, and archival layers that summarize context instead of re-sending it, and the token math that makes it survive the Agent SDK cap.
8 min#AI Engineering#AI Agents#Memory#Prompt Caching
AI EngineeringAnthropic's Agent SDK Billing Splits on June 15 — Rearchitect Before the Cap Hits
Anthropic moves the Claude Agent SDK to a separate metered credit pool on June 15, 2026 — a five-step rearchitecture I'm running on chays.ai and Freya Coach before the cap kicks in.
9 min#AI Engineering#Claude#Agent SDK#Prompt Caching
Cloud & DevOpsWhy I Run Keaz on Docker Swarm, Not Kubernetes
Why I picked Docker Swarm over Kubernetes for Keaz's twelve services in production — the three signals that say switch, and the budget math that says "not yet."
8 min#Cloud#DevOps#Kubernetes#Docker Swarm
SaaS PlatformHow I'd Architect Multi-Tenant Postgres for a SaaS in 2026
Postgres row-level security, the seven footguns that leak tenant data, and a seven-point checklist before you ship your next multi-tenant feature.
8 min#SaaS Architecture#Postgres#Multi-Tenant#Row-Level Security
AI EngineeringHow I Wire Claude Code Into a Real SaaS Codebase (and Where It Breaks)
Five guardrails for wiring Claude Code into a real SaaS codebase, where the loop actually breaks, and what it does to a CTO's planning math.
8 min#AI Engineering#Claude Code#Agent SDK#CTO
SaaS PlatformWhen to Hire a Fractional CTO vs. a Senior Engineer
A four-question decision tree for founders weighing a fractional CTO against a senior engineer hire — with cost ranges and timing.
8 min#Fractional CTO#Founder Strategy#Hiring#CTO