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My manager remarked when I told him I was leaving for another team. I really liked my manager, I was proud of working in the team but among other reasons, continuing to work in technical-debt fixing for more than a year while most members of my team were busy launching a promising v1 project, was affecting my happiness. I voiced my concerns but having done it for so long, I knew the area better than others. After a year of seeing opportunities pass by, I decided to make the move thus leading my team to lose a productive employee and myself leaving a team which I felt proud by association.

What to do when assigned uninteresting software engineering projects?

Beldex will implement verifiable random functions in its consensus to enhance unpredictability and randomness in validator and block leader selection. 

Introducing Provable Randomness in Beldex Consensus with Verifiable Random Functions

Security failures don’t start with CVE disclosure. This case study of CVE-2025-24813 shows why routine upgrades, not alerts, determine outcomes.

Security Doesn’t Start With CVE Disclosure

A deep benchmark-driven comparison of ScyllaDB and Memcached, revealing when a database can rival a cache in performance.

Cache vs. Database: Comparing Memcached and ScyllaDB

A deep architectural comparison of MongoDB and ScyllaDB, revealing why their designs lead to very different performance and scalability.

MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Architecture Comparison

Integrate CISA KEV into vulnerability management. Learn how exploitation-driven prioritization improves actively exploited vulnerability coverage by 4.1×

I Added CISA KEV to Vulnerability Prioritization and Coverage Jumped +413%

How can we know ours ads are making impact that we aim for? What if targeted ads are not working the way we want them to?

How to Use Propensity Score Matching to Measure Down Stream Causal Impact of an Event

As AI adoption grows, legacy data access controls fall short. Here’s why zero-trust data security is becoming essential for modern AI systems.

Zero-Trust Data Access for AI Training: New Architecture Patterns for Cloud and On-Prem Workloads

Project Manager of a AAA game reveals how he optimized art production by a factor of 3.3.

How a PM Can Transform Art Production: A Case Study in AAA Gaming

Container start-up latency can significantly slow down AI/ML workflows and degrade user experience in interactive environments.

Reducing Docker Container Start-up Latency: Practical Strategies for Faster AI/ML Workflows

Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is eating the API economy from the inside out. 

The Authorization Gap No One Wants to Talk About: Why Your API Is Probably Leaking Right Now

We audit Erlang/OTP’s decades-old C and NIF code with PVS-Studio, surfacing logic bugs, buffer risks, undefined behavior, and leaks in battle-tested systems.

The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

I became a project manager in a game company in 2021 and witnessed how production processes evolved in parallel with the rapid emergence of new AI tools.

Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development

PVS-Studio’s year-end roundup of the top 10 strangest Java errors found in open-source projects in 2025.

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

Can massive 100 TB+ tapes turn from preservation assets into liabilities? A veteran storage engineer explores risks, erasure coding, and future tape resilience.

When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste

Speculative execution attacks can leak ARM MTE memory tags, allowing attackers to bypass protections in Chrome and Linux with near-perfect success.

A Promising ARM Security Feature Isn’t as Bulletproof as It Looks

I didn’t break hiring. It broke the evidence. Why CVs and training signals no longer predict capability, and what HR should use instead in 2026

Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

An AI agent without memory is just a script. An agent without guardrails is a liability. The 7 critical pillars of building production-grade Agentic AI.

The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture

How Witness uses device, operator, and server-backed cryptographic signatures to authenticate photos and videos at capture.

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Controlled experiment compares perceived vs actual defect-detection effectiveness across testing and code reading, measuring mismatch cost and project loss.

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Midnight ramps up for mainnet with the launch of its native token following one of the most engaged token distributions in recent blockchain history.

Midnight Opens Redemptions for 4.5B+ NIGHT Tokens After Record-Breaking Distribution Event

IdeaOps is a framework for turning product ideas and requests into assets that fuel business growth. Learn how to classify and process them effectively.

IdeaOps: Why Every Request is a Company Asset in Product Development

Why LLMs collapse on email threads, recursive conversations, and unstructured communication—and what a context-first architecture looks like in practice. 

You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork adds PeerDAS, new gas and block limits, and cryptography upgrades to make rollups cheaper and nodes more efficient.

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork: What’s Changing?

Born in an agency that interfaced with hundreds of companies, \"Assigned\" solves the problem of delegating to external teams

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What to do when assigned uninteresting software engineering projects?

Introducing Provable Randomness in Beldex Consensus with Verifiable Random Functions

Security Doesn’t Start With CVE Disclosure

Cache vs. Database: Comparing Memcached and ScyllaDB

MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Architecture Comparison

I Added CISA KEV to Vulnerability Prioritization and Coverage Jumped +413%

How to Use Propensity Score Matching to Measure Down Stream Causal Impact of an Event

Zero-Trust Data Access for AI Training: New Architecture Patterns for Cloud and On-Prem Workloads

How a PM Can Transform Art Production: A Case Study in AAA Gaming

Reducing Docker Container Start-up Latency: Practical Strategies for Faster AI/ML Workflows

The Authorization Gap No One Wants to Talk About: Why Your API Is Probably Leaking Right Now

The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste

A Promising ARM Security Feature Isn’t as Bulletproof as It Looks

Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Midnight Opens Redemptions for 4.5B+ NIGHT Tokens After Record-Breaking Distribution Event

IdeaOps: Why Every Request is a Company Asset in Product Development

You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork: What’s Changing?

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