Why we ripped out our microservices and went back to a modular monolith
Distributed systems tax is real, and nobody tells you how hard it is to maintain audit trails across fifteen different services for home-care compliance.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
Why LLMs Have No Business in Your WooCommerce Checkout Flow
Never put a stochastic model on a synchronous transaction path unless you enjoy explaining timeout spikes to stakeholders.
Read moreWhat I Wish I'd Known Before Adding Claude to WooCommerce Checkout
Adding an LLM to a transactional path introduces failure modes traditional payment systems never see. Here is what broke in production.
Read moreStop Hoarding Context. Start Checkpointing It.
A bigger context window will never fix context loss. I audited 30 days of my own AI usage and found 73% of my spend was re-reading conversations I had already had. Here is the file-based system that fixed it.
Read moreThe real cause behind WooCommerce checkout race conditions (and how to fix them)
A Fortune 500 apparel brand’s checkout failures spiked to 2% during a flash sale—here’s why understanding race conditions matters more than ever.
Read moreWhy Most WooCommerce Race Conditions Are Worse Than You Think
Debugging WooCommerce race conditions often feels like chasing ghosts—here's what real failure looks like and how to fix it.
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