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One app, one deploy: running a CMS inside Next.js
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Thoughts on engineering, systems, and building things.

Payload 3 runs inside this site's Next.js app: one codebase, one deploy. What that buys, and the four times it bit me.

Moving reporting SQL from SQL Server to Databricks, a note said weeks were off by at most one. In business days, that is two.

I expected vocabulary from a systems engineering course. Three ideas followed me back to my desk instead, and each corrected an old habit.

80% of enterprise apps now embed an agent, and under 10% have scaled one to real value. I do not think that gap is a model problem.