Essay
MCP: The USB-C of AI Integrations
Why MCP matters, how hosts-clients-servers fit together, and what tools, resources, and prompts mean in practice.
Writing and shipped systems
Systems thinking for AI, backend engineering, and cloud delivery.
Essays, project pages, and implementation notes from the principal-engineer seat: architecture tradeoffs, platform edges, and the operational reality behind the diagrams.
Focus lanes
- AI systems and local LLM workflows
- JVM, Kotlin, and backend architecture
- Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and delivery tooling
Featured essays
Anchor pieces worth starting with.
Essay
What Microservice Benchmarks Actually Measure in 2026
Expanding an AdTech benchmark from a Quarkus-vs-Go experiment into a multi-runtime harness changed the lesson: benchmark mode, bottleneck, and fairness controls matter more than language tribalism.
Essay
Why Local LLMs Matter in 2025
Local models are no longer just a hobbyist niche. In 2025 they are a practical answer to privacy, latency, and cloud-cost pressure.
Flagship projects
Open-source work with enough substance to earn a page.
Flagship project
MCP ZAP Server
Secure OWASP ZAP scanning exposed as an MCP server for AI agents, with real deployment paths, documentation, and production-oriented auth.
Flagship project
Quarkus AdTech Demo
A benchmark-oriented RTB ingress harness that compares Quarkus JVM/native, Go, Rust, Python, Spring, and Node across HTTP-only and Kafka-backed modes under the constraints that matter in AdTech.
Flagship project
Spring Boot Playground
An opinionated Spring service starter that turns “how should we begin?” into a reusable contract across service creation, deployment, and release discipline.
Recent writing
Fresh essays and imported archive pieces.
Essay
Java Strikes Back: Benchmarking Quarkus Native vs. Go for High-Throughput AdTech
Quarkus Native closed most of the historical gap with Go in a high-throughput AdTech bid receiver benchmark.
Essay
Kotlin and Java Interoperability
Kotlin and Java can live in the same codebase cleanly, which makes migration and mixed-language projects practical.
Essay
Kafka Quickstart
A fast local Kafka setup with Docker, a test topic, and an Avro schema flow for producing and consuming messages.
Essay
Pull the Docker Image from AWS ECR to Kubernetes
Easy walkthrough to pull a private Docker image from AWS ECR into a Kubernetes deployment.
Essay
Simple Algorithm - Construct Binary Search Tree from Preorder Traversal
A straightforward way to rebuild a binary search tree from preorder traversal using standard BST insertion rules.
Essay
Generate CA-signed certificate using LetsEncrypt and Certbot
A production-oriented walkthrough for generating a browser-trusted certificate with Certbot using DNS validation.