A practical checklist I use to keep systems stable, observable, and resilient.

How we split responsibilities across UI, backend, and platform in a Lambda-first world.

A pragmatic recipe: chunking, indexing, evals, and feedback loops.

Topics, partitions, retention—and avoiding the top 3 surprises.

What you send up should be crisp enough to forward without editing.

Signals I’ve seen correlate with strong outcomes for engineering leads.