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This publication covers systems architecture, real-world software design, and applied AI — written for engineers who build under real constraints.

The constraints are specific: budget caps, small teams, regulatory requirements, legacy environments, device limitations. These are the conditions under which most software is actually built. They are underrepresented in technical publishing relative to their prevalence in practice.

What this publication covers

Every article is grounded in a real project, a real constraint, and a documented decision made under pressure. The subject matter is not what Google does — it is what a team of three engineers does when they cannot afford to do what Google does, and what breaks when they get it wrong.

The primary content areas are architecture decisions under practical constraints, applied AI with cost and risk reasoning, and documented build logs from real systems — supermarket billing, healthcare EHRs, debt management platforms.

What this publication does not cover

This is not a tutorial platform. It does not produce beginner guides, framework introductions, or general explainers. It does not optimize for search volume. Content that addresses hyperscale systems, Big Tech infrastructure, or idealized architectures is explicitly outside scope.

Authority here is earned through constraint specificity. An article is credible not because it covers a popular topic but because it documents a real decision with the failure modes and trade-offs named precisely.

About the author

I build systems where the interesting problems come from limitations, not scale. Multi-tenant healthcare platforms under HIPAA constraints. Offline-first point-of-sale systems that must survive 6-hour internet outages. Document processing pipelines where the API bill has to be defensible to someone who signs checks.

The recurring theme across these projects is the gap between what the documentation describes and what happens in production under real operating conditions. This publication exists to document that gap.