Why I Refuse to Build Headless for Most Clients
The microservices and headless migration tax is real, and most enterprise budgets die long before the architecture pays off.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
Stop Rewriting Legacy PHP When Your Queries Are Broken
A complete microservices rewrite won't fix unindexed JOINs and missing object caching. Profile the database first.
Read moreNobody is reading your meta descriptions
LLMs don't care about your SEO keyword density. They parse markdown, JSON-LD, and llms.txt files.
Read moreHeadless WordPress: when it is warranted, when it is not, and what ISR actually costs you
Headless is a trade, not an upgrade. The honest decision framework: the signals that justify it, the cases where it is pure cost, how ISR really behaves in production, and what it does and does not do for performance and security.
Read moreWhy Your AI Agent Guardrails Will Fail a Compliance Audit
Six months of building guardrails for regulated enterprise AI taught us that middleware validation is a compliance illusion.
Read moreThe AI Engineering Architecture Deficit
Most AI integrations look like 1998 ASP scripting with a chatbot bolted on: hardcoded prompts, raw provider calls in controllers, zero abstraction. Here's how Gateway, Repository, and Pipe & Filter patterns fix it.
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