Automation
Stop Parsing LLM JSON with Regex: Schemas, Validation, and Repair Loops
Stop using regex for LLM outputs. Learn how to build reliable pipelines with schemas, validation, and repair loops.
Articles by Rody
Developer
Docker Compose in Production: The Small-Team Checklist Before You Need Kubernetes
A practical production checklist for small teams to run Docker Compose reliably without the overhead of Kubernetes.
Developer
Database Backups for Tiny SaaS Apps: Restore Drills, Retention, and Disaster Windows
Vendor uptime isn't data safety. Tiny SaaS founders must prioritize restore drills and the 3-2-1 rule to survive catastrophic data loss.
AI Tools & Reviews
Local AI for Operators: Containing Automation Drift
Small teams fail at AI not from lack of tools, but from automation drift. Here is how to contain risk with local AI and...
Developer
FastAPI vs Next.js Server Actions: Picking the Right Backend for AI Tools
Align your AI backend with workload constraints to avoid timeouts, runaway costs, and technical debt.
Developer
Why Edge Runtimes Break AI Streaming: A Founder’s Guide to Resilience
Edge runtimes break AI apps through hard limits and silent hangs. We learned the hard way how to design resilient workflows that respect infrastructure...
Developer
Stop Treating Cron Jobs Like Disposable Scripts
Cron delivery is best-effort. If you don't design for duplicates and partial failures, you're gambling with data integrity. Here is the practical
Developer
Stop the Post-Mortem Theater: A Small Team’s Guide to Incident Reviews That Actually Work
Most post-incident reviews fail because they are treated as administrative theater. For small teams, the cost of ambiguity is too high. Here is how
Developer
Stop Paying for Silence: The Real Cost of Provisioned AI Infrastructure
Provisioning dedicated GPU clusters is a trap for bursty AI agents. I stopped provisioning dedicated clusters and switched to serverless inference. Here is the...
Developer
Building AI-Ready React Apps: Resilience Through Error Boundaries and Logging
Build resilient React apps for the AI era with error boundaries, logging, and recoverable UI state strategies.