Technical Due Diligence for Investors: The 12 Questions Every VC Will Ask
What VC technical due diligence actually checks — the 12 questions on architecture, security, and team risk — and how to prepare your startup in 30 days.
Do You Actually Need Kubernetes? An Honest Guide for Startups
Probably not yet. An honest guide to whether your startup needs Kubernetes right now, what to use instead, and the decision checklist that tells you when you’re actually ready.
From Heroku (or a VM) to Cloud Run: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide
How to migrate your app from Heroku or a VM to Google Cloud Run: Dockerfile audit, secrets migration, deploy command, rollback, DNS cutover, and a cost comparison table.
FinOps: How to Cut Your Cloud Bill (Without Hurting Performance)
Most cloud bills hide 20–40% waste. This FinOps guide shows where to cut: rightsizing, reserved vs savings plans, zombie resources — no code changes needed.
Cloud Security Basics: 10 Controls Every Startup Needs
10 cloud security controls every startup needs before its first customer: IAM, MFA, CloudTrail, S3 block-public, private subnets, secrets manager, WAF.
AI Observability in Production: What to Measure and How
LLM monitoring in production: the 5 metrics that matter, real tooling with Langfuse and Phoenix, and the one dashboard every on-call engineer needs.
DevOps for Startups: Zero to CI/CD Without Breaking Production
Stop fearing every deploy. A stage-by-stage DevOps guide for startups: what to build first (CI/CD, monitoring, IaC) and what to skip until you actually need it.
Prompt Engineering in Production: What Actually Works
Production prompt engineering: 6 patterns for reliable LLMs — chain-of-thought, domain few-shot, JSON schema, fallback prompts, git versioning, and a golden eval harness.
LLM Costs in Production: What Nobody Tells You Before You Launch
LLM API costs in production: cost-per-1M-token comparison across models, up to 80% savings with prompt caching, and a worked example at 10K users/day.
7 Signs Your Startup Needs a CTO — A Founder’s Checklist
Not sure when you need a CTO? Here are 7 concrete signals — from stalled velocity to pre-Series A due diligence — and what ignoring each one costs you.