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  1. 25Cloud & InfrastructureAWS Cost Optimization: How I Keep a Production Platform Under $50/MonthThe Nexural platform runs on AWS with Vercel, Supabase, and targeted AWS services. Here's how I keep costs under $50/month for a platform with 185 tables and real-time data.Mar 8, 2026
  2. 26Testing & QATest Strategy for Startups: What to Test When You Can't Test EverythingYou have 2 engineers and 100 features. You can't test everything. Here's the risk-based test strategy I use to maximize coverage with minimal investment.Mar 5, 2026
  3. 27Testing & QAEliminating Flaky Tests: A Systematic ApproachHow I took a test suite from 10% flaky rate to under 1% — retry logic, test isolation, deterministic data, and the patterns that make tests reliable.Feb 28, 2026
  4. 28Testing & QAOWASP Top 10 Automated Testing: A Practical ImplementationHow I built a security scanner that checks for SQL injection, XSS, broken auth, and 7 other OWASP categories automatically in CI/CD pipelines.Feb 22, 2026
  5. 29Solo Studio Operating SystemWhat I Learned Building in Public as a Solo EngineerOne year of building the Nexural ecosystem, trading futures, writing a book, and documenting everything. The wins, the failures, and what I'd tell someone starting today.Feb 15, 2026
  6. 30AI EngineeringThe Solo Engineer's Toolkit: Tools That Replace a TeamHow I operate as a solo engineer building production systems — the tools, workflows, and automations that let one person do the work of a small team.Feb 8, 2026
  7. 31Product SystemsThe Bug That Taught Me More Than Any Course Ever DidA race condition in a payment webhook handler sat undetected for 3 weeks. When it fired, it double-charged 4 customers. Here's the full postmortem and why I now test billing code differently.Feb 1, 2026
  8. 32Testing & QAYour Test Coverage Number Is Lying to You80% test coverage means nothing if you're testing the wrong 80%. Here's how I think about coverage — not as a number to chase, but as a map of where you're blind.Jan 28, 2026
  9. 33Fintech & Trading SystemsI Read 50 Senior Engineer Job Descriptions. Here's What They Actually Want.I analyzed 50 job postings for senior/staff engineers at companies paying $180K-$350K. The patterns are clear — and most portfolios miss them completely.Jan 22, 2026
  10. 34Product SystemsWhy I Use Raw SQL Instead of an ORM (Most of the Time)ORMs are great until they're not. After debugging generated queries that took 30 seconds on a 185-table database, I switched to raw SQL for the hot paths. Here's when each makes sense.Jan 18, 2026
  11. 35Fintech & Trading SystemsWhat Trading Futures Taught Me About Writing SoftwareI trade ES, NQ, and CL futures every morning before I write code. The parallels between risk management in trading and risk management in software are uncomfortably similar.Jan 12, 2026
  12. 36Cloud & InfrastructureGitHub OIDC → AWS (No Long-Lived Keys): Cloud Automation the Right WayHow to use GitHub Actions OIDC to assume an AWS IAM role and deploy/upload artifacts without storing AWS keys. Includes least-privilege IAM, trust policy patterns, and troubleshooting tips.Jan 10, 2026
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