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A workstation screen showing a Claude chat interface with code snippets and a terminal in the background.

Your First 7 Days with Claude: A Practical Onboarding Guide for Engineers

A hands-on, engineer-focused walkthrough of the first seven days with Claude — from setup and prompt patterns to tool use, RAG, and the production habits that separate demos from real systems.

A diagram showing the stages of an LLM inference request moving from the API edge through the scheduler, KV cache, and GPU.

The LLM Inference Roadmap I Wish More Engineers Followed

Most teams treat LLM inference like a REST call. This roadmap walks through the layers that actually decide cost and latency in production — from continuous batching to KV cache layout to speculative decoding.

Diagram of a Go pipeline showing goroutines connected by channels, with backpressure arrows between stages.

Architecting Concurrent Go Systems: A Deep Dive into CSP Channels for Production-Ready Pipelines

How Go channels actually behave under load, why CSP pipelines fail in production, and the patterns senior engineers use to make them resilient.

Abstract diagram of a distributed transaction with compensation paths.

Implementing the Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions in Modern Commerce Platforms

Distributed transactions in commerce platforms can’t rely on two-phase commit. This post walks through the Saga pattern, compares choreography and orchestration, and shows how to handle compensation, idempotency, and observability in production.

Diagram of a Bloom filter in front of an LSM-tree sorted run.

Inside LSM-Tree Bloom Filters: Architecture, Trade-offs, and Production Tuning

A deep dive into how Bloom filters accelerate point reads in LSM-tree engines like RocksDB and Cassandra, with the math, the trade-offs, and the levers you actually have at the tuning knob.