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Thinking out loud, not content marketing.

Technical opinions, architecture notes, and what leading a small engineering team actually costs. Some posts are in Bahasa Indonesia, tagged per post.

Posts 5

Latest 2026-06-18

Languages EN, ID

Topics AllPlatformApplied AIArchitectureLeadershipCompliance

EN Platform 2026-06-18 · 6 min

Boring infrastructure is a leadership decision

Why I default to the least exciting option that meets the requirement, and how I explain that to a board.

Latest post Why I default to the least exciting option that meets the requirement, and how I explain that to a board.

EN Applied AI

2026-05-30 · 8 min

OCR accuracy is not the hard part

Extraction is a solved problem on clean documents. Everything expensive happens after the text comes out.

EN Architecture

2026-05-02 · 7 min

Backpressure before scale

Adding capacity to a system with no backpressure buys you a larger outage, not a smaller one.

EN Compliance

2026-03-21 · 9 min

What UU PDP changed in how I store documents

Indonesia's data protection law rewrote our retention and residency assumptions, and the migration was not the hard part.

EN Leadership

2026-02-08 · 6 min

Hiring the first three engineers

The first three hires set the ceiling on everyone after them, and nobody tells you that while you are doing it.