Notes from
the studio.
Long-form pieces on technology, AI and digital transformation — written by the people doing the work, not the marketing team.
FIG. 01 
Why we stopped mocking databases in integration tests
We burned an afternoon chasing a migration bug that mocked tests had cheerfully approved. Here's the policy we shipped instead, and the cost-benefit it implies.
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The evals you actually need before shipping an LLM feature
Most teams either over-engineer this (full eval framework, dashboards, three contractors) or under-engineer it (vibes). Here's the minimum we ship with.
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Akamai vs Cloudflare for LATAM traffic: a 90-day side-by-side
We ran the same Costa Rica e-commerce site on Akamai (via Linode) and Cloudflare for three months. Here's where each one earned its keep — and where it didn't.
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