Twenty-five months from first line of code to production platform.
Physics researcher begins building software. The workshop phase starts.
Static site generator built from scratch. Understanding file systems, templating, and build processes.
Island hydration framework. Zero JS by default, hydrate only interactive components.
Astro's island architecture validated by standard_islands research. Becomes the production SSG.
Event sourcing prototype on the Kameo actor framework. State as event sequence.
Fine-grained reactivity without virtual DOM. Proven during QMS iteration three.
Queue management for a dental office begins. Plain HTML and server-rendered templates.
React attempt, then SolidJS. Reactive frontend architecture validated.
Real-time updates and full workflow integration. Check-in, triage, provider routing, room tracking.
Company public site. First production deployment of workshop patterns.
Domain expertise extracted from QMS becomes the foundation for an AI receptionist.
First three iterations. Monolithic, state machine, SolidJS frontend validated.
Booking flow proven, WebSocket streaming, latency optimization.
Managed voice platform gets to production fast but pipeline is a black box.
WireGuard mesh VPN for all internal service communication. Zero public attack surface.
Commit to no SaaS dependencies. Begin deploying NATS, SeaweedFS, Harbor on own hardware.
Third-party AI black box rejected. Custom pipeline architecture designed.
Deepgram STT + Cartesia TTS + Fireworks LLM. The stack that works.
Production database moves to CloudNativePG with HA and automated backup.
SuperTokens, Ory, Authentik, Zitadel evaluated. Each teaches a lesson about identity.
Ten days, five iterations. Trust calibration, intent clarification, operator steering, 12-model eval.
Rust/Axum OIDC provider. PKCS#8 JWT, PKCE, NATS KV sessions. Five auth systems distilled into one.
Single-day cutover. 5-node cluster with Traefik, CNPG, NATS, SeaweedFS, Harbor.
IDP, session management, deploy CLI, CDN proxy. Health checks and NetworkPolicies.
SealedSecrets, NetworkPolicies, health verification, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki.
Rebranded from dental receptionist to multi-channel AI communication platform.
Episode/session/artifact model. Voice, chat, knowledge retrieval, agent integration.
All services live. Observability real. Deploy CLI end-to-end. Foundation set.