Thoughts on engineering, design, AI, and building digital products — written by the team at CODX Systems.
Practical insights, honest lessons, and deep dives into the technology and design decisions that shape our work.

A practical guide to deciding between retrieval-augmented generation and model fine-tuning — with real-world tradeoffs, costs, and use cases.
Priya Kapoor
8 min read

The difference between a collection of components and a true design system — and why the distinction matters for scaling your product.
Elena Voss
5 min read

When to break up your monolith, how to do it safely, and the hard lessons we learned migrating a production SaaS platform serving 80K+ users.
Marcus Chen
10 min read

Every npm install has a price. How we evaluate, audit, and minimise dependency risk in production applications.
James Liu
4 min read

An honest account of our experience with different LLM providers — the benchmarks, the costs, the quirks, and why the answer isn't binary.
Priya Kapoor
6 min read

We don't hire like big tech. Here's how we evaluate talent, what matters more than resumes, and the one quality we never compromise on.
David Park
5 min read
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