Systems Notes by Nolan Vale

how to run a blameless postmortem that actually changes anything
16/07/2026
THE INEVITABLE SHIFT TOWARD DATA SOVEREIGNTY
14/07/2026
What Nobody Tells You About Vector Index Configuration Until Your Retrieval Breaks at Scale
13/07/2026
Caching in RAG Systems: What to Cache, What Not To, and Why It Matters More Than You Think
10/07/2026
Building Guardrails for Enterprise LLMs That Actually Work
9/07/2026
Token Economics: Why Your LLM Architecture is Bleeding Cash
8/07/2026
Why Event-Driven AI Agents Scale Better Than Request-Driven Ones
7/07/2026
Context Compression: Fitting More Useful Information Into Your LLM's Context Window
6/07/2026
Building Agentic Workflows That Don't Fall Apart in Production: What I've Learned the Hard Way
3/07/2026
The Architecture Diagram Looked Perfect. The Operations Team Disagreed.
2/07/2026