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★ EssentialPublished June 10, 20263 min read

Agentic coding with governance: how my teams use Claude Code in production workflows

AI assistants can ship real software — if you give them context, boundaries and quality gates. The operating model we use for AI-assisted development.

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★ EssentialPublished June 9, 20262 min read

Architecture is your best FinOps tool: how we scaled 10x and cut cost by 57%

Right-sizing and savings plans have a ceiling. The big cloud savings live in architecture decisions — a real case scaling a platform from 100K to 1M+ concurrent users while cutting operating cost in half.

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Published June 12, 202615 min read

Designing a processor-agnostic payment orchestration platform (ARB)

A real Architecture Review Board document: a processor-agnostic payment orchestration layer for high-risk, high-velocity verticals — canonical model, smart routing, double-entry ledger, PCI scope minimization and cloud-agnostic Kubernetes. Diagrams, ADRs and a phased roadmap included.

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Published June 11, 20262 min read

design.md: the document that aligns humans and AI before a line of code

Why a lightweight design document became the highest-leverage engineering practice in my teams — and how it multiplies the quality of AI-assisted development.

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