Five Production Bugs That Taught Me More Than Any Course
Five outages, five root causes, and the lessons that stuck because they cost real money at 2am.
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Five outages, five root causes, and the lessons that stuck because they cost real money at 2am.
Building alone has a public face and a private one. This is the private one — the flat weeks, the doubt, and the things that actually helped.
A billboard intelligence map for the UAE and a gamified personal dashboard, documented while they are still unfinished, plus the open-source projects they share a habit with.
Five years as a one-person consultancy in the UAE and Saudi Arabia: scoping, pricing outcomes, procurement timelines, and saying no early.
Demos run once. Production runs thousands of times a day. Notes on latency budgets, evaluation, fallbacks, and unit economics from building AI systems for real clients.