Ilyas Mustafin
CTO / Enterprise Architect
Notes on architecture, DevOps and building products
FinOps in Practice. How to Stop Burning Money in the Cloud
A practical guide to cloud cost optimization: 6 patterns, free tools (Infracost, OpenCost, cloud-nuke), a one-day checklist, and real savings numbers.
Your AI Assistant Gets Dumber Every Minute
Breaking down GSD - a system for fighting context degradation when working with AI. Spec-driven approach, fresh contexts and atomic commits instead of chat chaos.
Agentic Reality Check: Only 11% of Companies Use AI Agents in Production
Breaking down the Deloitte Tech Trends 2026 report on AI agents. Real adoption numbers, Toyota, HPE, Dell, and Moderna case studies, and why most agentic projects are doomed to fail.
AI Inference and Cloud-Native: Kubernetes as AI Hub
The CNCF executive director predicts massive growth in cloud-native software consumption driven by AI inference. What this means for architects and platform engineering right now.
Amazon and OpenAI: $50B and AI Agent Architecture
Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI and becomes the exclusive cloud provider for Frontier. What does this mean for architects building enterprise AI right now?
qwen3 vs nomic: swapping embedding models with real numbers
nomic-embed-text was terrible at finding Russian content - the target chunk ranked 44th out of 48. Switched to qwen3-embedding - same chunk jumped to #1. Full benchmark on live chatbot data.
BPM Platforms: Evolution or Archaism?
800 IT leaders from large enterprises told Camunda about the real state of process automation. The numbers are thought-provoking - and not just about BPM.
Hybrid RAG: How the Bot Lost 80% of Its Weight
The chatbot was sending 6,000 tokens per request - all 26 articles, entire career, all services. Hybrid RAG kept a stable core and taught the bot to recall only what's relevant. Real metrics, architecture, and code.
Four Bugs in One Evening
The bot lost sessions, switched languages, hallucinated email addresses, and sent messages to spam. Four bugs, four root causes, four fixes.