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 ...
Accelerating Optimizely CMS 12 β 13 and Commerce 14 β 15 with Agentic AI
Source: This post is a re-published and reformatted version of Accelerating Optimizely CMS and Commerce upgrades with agentic AI (Part 2 of 2) by Hung Le Hoang, published on Optimizely World on ...
Floci: The Free AWS Emulator That Shipped the Day LocalStack Died
The incident: March 2026 On March 15, 2026, LocalStack published a blog post titled "The Road Ahead for LocalStack". The Community Edition β the free tier that hundreds of thousands of developer...
Markdown vs Vector Database for AI LLMs: A Beginner's Guide
Wait β aren't these two different things? Yes, and that's exactly the point. Comparing Markdown and Vector Databases is a bit like comparing a Word document to a filing cabinet. One is a format, ...
How My AI Workflow Evolved from Prompts to Workflow
<![CDATA[ This post is a summary and discussion of the original article "How My AI Workflow Evolved from Prompts to Workflow" by Hoang Nguyen, published on codeaholicguy.com on April 11, 2026. All ...
DevPulse: Architecture of a Real-Time AI Workspace
<![CDATA[ DevPulse started from a simple premise: project data should not be frozen. In most developer tools, AI features operate on a snapshot β data that was indexed last night, or whenever a bac...
How Claude Agents Actually Work: A 6-Layer Architecture Breakdown
<![CDATA[ Most developers, when they first wire up an LLM agent, carry a flawed mental model: the model runs code. It does not. Understanding where the boundary actually sits β what Anthropic's inf...
Cursor Cloud Agents Explained: My Machines, Self-Hosted Pool, and How It All Works
Cursor quietly shipped one of its most significant infrastructure updates in March 2026: Cloud Agents. The feature itself is not entirely new β the concept of background agents running in isolat...
How AI Can Make Logging Timesheets Actually Easy
If you've ever had to log timesheets at the end of a long workday, you know the feeling: you stare at a form, trying to remember exactly what you worked on, for how long, and under which project c...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does β and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...