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Deep dives from the engineers, designers, and strategists building with AI every day.

Engineering

The Practical Case for JSDoc Over TypeScript in 2025

TypeScript has won the adoption war, but for certain project profiles, a disciplined JSDoc approach gives you 80% of the safety with zero build-step overhead and full IDE intelligence.

Callum Ashby

Jan 14, 20257 min

What We Learned Shipping RAG to Production at Scale

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AI & ML

What We Learned Shipping RAG to Production at Scale

Retrieval-augmented generation looks straightforward in a Jupyter notebook. At 14,000 queries per day, the failure modes are different — and the solutions are less obvious than the tutorials suggest.

Arjun Nair

Dec 12, 202411 min

Zero-Downtime Deployments on AWS: A Practical Playbook

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DevOps

Zero-Downtime Deployments on AWS: A Practical Playbook

Blue-green, canary, and rolling releases each have a use case. Here's how we choose between them and what the GitHub Actions pipeline looks like in production.

Nadia Osei

Nov 28, 20249 min

Article

Design

Designing for Dark Mode from Day One

Dark mode is easier to add at the start than to retrofit — and the decisions you make in your token system determine whether it feels considered or patchy.

Léa Fontaine

Sep 5, 20246 min

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