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The full archive, newest first. Page 3 of 6 — 62 articles across 6 topic clusters.
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Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Cost Optimization: How I Keep a Production Platform Under $50/Month
The 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
26
Testing & QA
Test Strategy for Startups: What to Test When You Can't Test Everything
You 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
27
Testing & QA
Eliminating Flaky Tests: A Systematic Approach
How 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
28
Testing & QA
OWASP Top 10 Automated Testing: A Practical Implementation
How 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
29
Solo Studio Operating System
What I Learned Building in Public as a Solo Engineer
One 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
30
AI Engineering
The Solo Engineer's Toolkit: Tools That Replace a Team
How 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
31
Product Systems
The Bug That Taught Me More Than Any Course Ever Did
A 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
32
Testing & QA
Your Test Coverage Number Is Lying to You
80% 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
33
Fintech & Trading Systems
I 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
34
Product Systems
Why 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
35
Fintech & Trading Systems
What Trading Futures Taught Me About Writing Software
I 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
36
Cloud & Infrastructure
GitHub OIDC → AWS (No Long-Lived Keys): Cloud Automation the Right Way
How 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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