Technical Strategy

📚 Table of Contents The Architecture That Ate a Company What Monolith and Microservices Actually Mean The Honest Truth About Each Approach When to Choose Monolith (The Case for Starting Simple) When to Choose Microservices (The Real Triggers) The Organizational Impact Nobody Talks About The Migration Path: From Monolith to Microservices Common Mistakes andAnd How to Avoid Them Questions to Ask Your Engineering Team The Decision Framework The Bottom Line The Architecture That Ate a Company In 2021, a promising startup made a decision that nearly killed them. ...

📚 Table of Contents The AI Feature That Went Wrong (And Why It’s Not the Model’s Fault) What AI Actually Is (And What It Isn’t) LLMs Demystified: The PM’s Mental Model RAG, Fine-Tuning, and When to Use What The AI Feature Development Process Specifying AI Features: The New Requirements AI Costs: Understanding the Token Economy Testing and Quality for AI Features Common AI Product Mistakes Building Your AI Product Muscles Questions to Ask Your AI/Engineering Team The Bottom Line The AI Feature That Went Wrong (And Why It’s Not the Model’s Fault) In 2024, I watched a company spend $300,000 building an AI feature that failed spectacularly. ...

📚 Table of Contents The 100ms That Cost $1M Why Performance Is a Product Problem The Business Impact of Speed The Performance Metrics That Matter Core Web Vitals: The PM’s Guide Common Performance Problems and Their Fixes Performance vs. Features: The Roadmap Trade-off Building a Performance Culture Questions to Ask Your Engineering Team Your Performance Action Plan The Bottom Line The 100ms That Cost $1M In 2022, I worked with an e-commerce company that had a performance problem they didn’t know they had. ...