Short essays from Nexus Dev engineers and designers — on product engineering, cloud platforms, and shipping AI features that hold up in production.
What our flag system has to do on its worst day — graceful degradation, clear owners, and the three rules we use to keep a runtime switch from becoming the next outage.
Short reads from the team — the kind of notes we'd normally keep in a shared doc, published in case they're useful to someone else.
Letters, numbers, spaces, and basic punctuation only.
A field guide to retrieval eval loops — what to measure, what to ignore, and when to throw the whole setup out and start over.
Runbooks, IAM sprawl, and the unexciting work that determines whether a migration lands on time or slips two quarters.
Why we ask for a messy export before we open Figma — and what it changes about the first week of a project.
How a six-person rotation stays humane — paging thresholds, runbook hygiene, and post-incident reviews that actually land.
Five component patterns that quietly make our React apps more accessible, with the tradeoffs we've hit along the way.
A pragmatic look at when to host, when to call an API, and the cache strategy that made our production eval bill survivable.
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One short digest at the start of each month — new articles, significant corrections, and what we're working on next. No tracking pixels, no third-party trackers.