AuthorMaksim

I build AI-powered products and lead engineering teams. I've launched platforms from zero to millions of users and learned most lessons the hard way. I write about the gap between engineering theory and practice, what actually matters when building products, and the decisions that shape teams and systems.

Are You Choosing Cloud Services Based on Their Marketing Promises?

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This article highlights the critical challenges engineers and leaders face when selecting cloud services and providers. While functional requirements typically drive service selection, operational reliability and incident management capabilities are often overlooked, creating significant business risks. The article explores practical approaches to evaluate cloud services beyond their feature...

Generative AI Expectations for Engineers

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This article explores one of the most pressing yet underappreciated challenges facing engineers today: understanding the exact level of Generative AI knowledge expected of them. As Gen AI becomes deeply embedded in the engineering world, the boundaries between “just using it” and “truly knowing it” are blurring – and that ambiguity is costing engineers opportunities...

Building reliability on top of a chaos

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This article examines how AI integration forces software architects to build increasingly complex validation systems around inherently unreliable components, creating a paradox where one unreliable AI system validates another. The key insight is that organizations need standardized architectural patterns and frameworks specifically designed for AI reliability management, rather than treating each...

AI Revolution survival guide for companies and engineers

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This article examines the fundamental shifts occurring in employment, hiring, and organizational structure as AI capabilities rapidly advance. The key insight is that companies must fundamentally reimagine their approach to talent acquisition, onboarding, and education to thrive in an environment where AI handles execution while humans focus on creativity and strategic...

Crafting your perfect CV with AI

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This article explores how AI can help you craft a CV that stands out from hundreds of other applications for specific positions. The key insight is to leverage AI’s strengths in summarization while avoiding its creative nature by providing comprehensive career data and job-specific context to generate tailored CVs that precisely align with employer requirements. The approach is more...

Incident Management Made Easy

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This article examines how automated incident management approaches can enhance operational excellence by minimizing human on-call involvement, accelerating root cause identification, and enhancing impact communication. By leveraging automated runbook execution and Large Language Model (LLM) analysis, organizations can transform their incident response from reactive...

Why Your LLM Context Management Strategy Is Failing Your Organization?

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This article demonstrates how organizations can transform their LLM integration from fragmented, unreliable processes into consistent, organizationally aligned workflows. By implementing MCP guides instead of traditional knowledge bases, companies can ensure their AI-driven processes maintain quality standards and follow established procedures without suffering from context...

What Stops You From Having Zero-Touch Deployment?

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This article aims to prove that eliminating coordinated deployments and human-supervised deployment processes is not only possible but essential for modern software development. Organizations can achieve steady CI/CD without operator involvement in happy-path scenarios by implementing comprehensive testing strategies, proper deployment culture, and automated quality controls that...

Why Your Company Needs an Internal MCP Server?

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This article examines the necessity for companies to establish internal Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, rather than relying solely on external solutions. The key benefit lies in maintaining organizational control over security, data handling, and business processes while leveraging AI capabilities effectively. Companies that implement internal MCP servers can...

Operations 360

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The article highlights a gap in the consistency of business monitoring approaches and proposes a way to build comprehensive health metrics for all operational aspects within the organization. The solution aims to ensure clear visibility of all organizational processes and reduce reaction time for any incidents. Background Starting from the moment when one person delegates a piece of work to...

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