Engineering Blog
Technical insights on Optimizely CMS, Commerce, and the modern .NET ecosystem.
Graph Engineering: When One Loop Isn't Enough
In the third week of July 2026, a new trend lit up X: "graph engineering." I read through five back-to-back takes and about half of it was hype, the other half was something worth actually putting ...
Superpowers: The Agentic Skills Framework That Makes Claude Code Actually Think Before Coding
The Problem With Every AI Coding Agent Out of the Box You open Claude Code. You type "build me a user authentication system." And within seconds it's already writing UserController.cs β no questio...
How I Used AI to Build Ginbok.com β From Idea to Production in My Spare Time
Ginbok.com started as a side project I spun up in my spare time β a personal blog powered by Optimizely CMS 12 on the backend and Next.js 14 on the frontend. What made this build different from my...
Hunting the CPU-hogging "Virus" with AI Agents: When the Terminal is No Longer Scary
Lately, my desktop computer suddenly became hot, and the cooling fan roared loudly even though I wasn't running any heavy software. Opening Task Manager, the culprit was clearly named, a strange pr...
Outcome-Based Pricing in the Age of AI: Promise, Problems, and the Hybrid Reality
The Shift Nobody Planned For For decades, software pricing followed a simple logic: count the seats, multiply by a monthly fee, collect recurring revenue. It worked because the cost of delivering s...
Why the World Needed MCP When We Already Had APIs
A Question Worth Asking APIs have been around for decades. REST, GraphQL, gRPC β we have mature, well-documented standards for connecting software systems. So when MCP (Model Context Protocol) appe...
What Is an AI Agent? From Chatbot to Autonomous Actor
The Question That Started It All A developer recently asked me: "Are Claude or Cursor considered AI Agents?" It's a deceptively simple question. The answer forced a deeper look at what "Agent" actu...
MCP Server for E-commerce: AI Agents as the New Ops Team
"The future of e-commerce management is shifting away from building more complex internal dashboards and moving toward creating standardized interfaces where AI agents can act as an intelligent, sc...
Why AI-ERP Integration Fails: The Case for Semantic Architecture
This article is adapted from the architectural viewpoints of Ngo Tung Son on semantic-centric AI systems. In the current landscape of digital acceleration, enterprise leaders are increasingly askin...
The Developer Paradox: How AI Reshapes Software Engineering
The tech landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. While many believe developers are the primary beneficiaries of Artificial Intelligence, the reality is more nuanced. We are witnessing a "Developer...