Posts tagged #architecture

3 posts

• Frontier Models Do Not Think January 6, 2026

  Transformers don't reason. They perform reasoning kabuki theater. What's missing isn't capability, it's coordination.

• 60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS September 1, 2012

  How we scaled from 1,000 to 600,000+ daily users with zero downtime, no late nights, and a four-person team. The architecture decisions that made it possible.

• Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team May 2, 2012

  The story of how we fired everyone, rewrote everything in Clojure, moved to AWS, and built a scalable OTA platform with just four developers—then got acquired by the biggest hotel chains in the world.