Reporting
When PDF exports stop scaling: moving report generation off the request path
Queues, workers, chunking, retries and the challenge of large attachments.
Insights
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Upcoming articles on automation, reporting, cloud systems and modernization. The decisions, constraints and tradeoffs behind useful software.
6 upcoming articles
Automation
How to decide whether a workflow should actually use AI
A practical framework for separating deterministic rules from AI-assisted steps.
Cloud
Lambda vs container workers for long-running document processing
Tradeoffs around runtime, concurrency, cost, observability and operational complexity.
AI
Where human approval should remain in AI workflows
Designing review paths for low-confidence or high-impact decisions.
Architecture
Five signs your SaaS application has outgrown synchronous processing
Signals that a queue or job architecture is becoming necessary.
Modernization
Rewrite or modernize incrementally? A decision framework
A business-focused way to evaluate legacy-system replacement.
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