Vol. 1 · No. 3 · September 2026

Engineering at Scale

LLM apps, real-time video, logging and multi-tenant design

AI

Beyond the Chatbot: Engineering Context-Aware LLM Applications

Why the chat window is the least interesting part of an LLM product, and the four disciplines — research, conversation design, integration and testing — that decide whether it works.

29 Sept 20263 min readArticle

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Research

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Peer-to-Peer by Design: How WebRTC Negotiates a Real-Time Connection

How two browsers that cannot see each other establish a direct, encrypted media channel: capture, signaling, SDP offer and answer, and ICE with STUN and TURN.

24 Sept 20267 min readOther

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One Application, Many Tenants: Three Multi-Tenancy Architectures in Laravel

Comparing three ways to serve many customers from one Laravel codebase — separate databases, a shared schema with tenant IDs, and packaged tenancy — on isolation, cost and effort.

3 Sept 20265 min readOther

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Technology

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Centralized Logging with the ELK Stack, Containerized

A working Docker Compose setup for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana: what each component does, how the pipeline fits together, and how to secure it before go-live.

17 Sept 20267 min readArticle

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Development

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GraphQL in React with Apollo Client: Queries, Mutations and Uploads

Set up Apollo Client in a React app, fetch data with useQuery, change it with useMutation, and handle file uploads — with the patterns that keep it maintainable.

10 Sept 20266 min readArticle

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