Journal
Notes from engagements, published so a technical evaluator can judge how we think before speaking to us.
- 02
Offline-first is a data model decision, not a caching strategy
Why bolting a cache onto a request-response application never produces an application that works offline.
2 April 20269 min
- 03
Characterise the load before you optimise anything
Two of the last three performance engagements we took found a bottleneck nobody had suspected. Neither was compute.
14 February 20267 min
- 04
Build the evaluation harness before you choose the model
Putting a language model into a regulated workflow is mostly a measurement problem wearing a machine learning costume.
9 December 202510 min
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