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Chaff • Engineering Lessons Learned

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Engineering Lessons Learned
Dec 03, 2025
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This week
  1. 💻 AI-assisted coding - Claude Code checkpoints, a self hosted PR reviewer, and a Commodore 64 AI game challenge

  2. 🏗️ Architecture - Chaos resilient systems

  3. 🤖 LLMs in production - A data format to save tokens, an in house content factory, and the nightmare of building an “agentic” AI

  4. 📊 Data - The limitless capabilities of Apache Cassandra, and surgically precise updates

  5. 🛡️ Security - Building a credential leak monitoring platform, and learning the math essentials for security

  6. 🧠 ML - Solving a “simple” NYT puzzle

  7. ⚙️ DevOps - Running thousands of iOS pipelines every day


🏗️ ARCHITECTURE

  • Beyond Failure: Tracing the Revolutionary History of Chaos Engineering | 14 min read

What if the only way to ensure your system survives chaos is to “break it on purpose”? This piece traces how deliberate fault injection, from NASA’s early experiments to Chaos Monkey and modern chaos-engineering tools, became the backbone of resilient, failure-tolerant infrastructure

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