Alexander Ertli articles - 16 total
When AI Writes Your Code, DevOps Becomes the Last Line of Defense
When AI writes your code, does DevOps become obsolete—or more critical than ever?
Vibecoding: How to get from 0 to SaaS in hours.
How-to: Vibecoding a full-stack SaaS using Google's Antigravity IDE.
I Let an LLM Write JavaScript Inside My AI Runtime. Here’s What Happened
emerging pattern: let LLMs write and execute their own JavaScript code for task execution, summarization, and self-repair
When to Use OpenAI + Tools vs a Workflow Runtime
An architectural guide to agentic AI
A War Story: Building Products to Solve Your Own Pain Points
Know the game you are playing — reflections on seven months of building.
Moving the Needle: How to Analyze Your Product Roadmap Monthly
Learn a two-step, data-driven workflow using LLMs for analysis and meta-reflection to assess your product roadmap, own outcomes, and detect critical pivots before it's too late.
Vibe Coding a Simple Feature Took 3 Hours. Here's Why.
I tried to let an LLM add two simple parameters, and it sparked a 3-hour design debate.
The Real Job of a Developer Isn’t What You Think
Technology. Some grew up breathing it. Others had to catch up later. Either way—we're all in now.
“Fake It Till You Make It” vs. Building Real Tech
A story about resisting shortcuts, the curse of knowledge, and why real tech takes patience
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Behold the Modular Monolith: The Architecture Balancing...
From a Simple Ollama Client to 26k LOC
A journey from a small Go snippet to a large modular codebase — lessons learned, philosophy, and what's next.
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Everyone Is Wrong About SQLite Shayan ・ Jun 26 ...
Sagas to the Rescue: The Perils of Partial Success
How to handle partial failures without letting a simple timeout spawn a distributed system nightmare
Scaling Go Tests with Smart Naming Conventions
How to organize and run Go tests efficiently by using naming conventions to separate unit, integration, and system tests for faster feedback and cleaner CI pipelines.
From GitHub Pages to GCP: Picking Your Web Infra Stack for Launch
A developer’s end-to-end guide to picking the right DNS, SSL, and hosting stack for launch – from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare to GCP.
Go & AES-GCM: A Security Deep Dive
Many Go AES-GCM examples look simple, but can hide critical flaws. This post uncovers the 'forbidden attack' of nonce reuse and why truly understanding nonces is key to secure encryption.