Field notes from building, launching, and maintaining real software products.
Long context windows are useful, but they do not guarantee better reasoning. Sometimes AI coding sessions fail because they contain too much stale information.
Netflix's AWS migration was not a simple lift and shift. It was a full rebuild of how the company designed, deployed, scaled, and recovered software.
A structured 10-step post-launch checklist for indie developers: backups, analytics, crash reports, store localization, marketing, legal pages, and release momentum.