Writing | Tai Lam

Writing

Engineering lessons from the systems I build

Published notes about decisions, trade-offs, failure boundaries, and the business rules hidden behind an interface.

What Productionizing LiveCap Taught Me About Cloud Systems

A real-time demo became a production system only after privacy, networking, cold starts, observability, and failure boundaries became product decisions.

AWSArchitectureWebSocket

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System Design5 min read

FEFO Before Features: Modeling a Bakery as an Operations System

Why perishable inventory forced Leaf Creme to model batches, transactions, and payment state before polishing storefront features.

PostgreSQLBusiness RulesFastAPI

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