Boris Tane

Your on-call rotation has always been an admission of defeat.

Slop creep is the slow, invisible enshittification of a codebase through an accumulation of individually reasonable but collectively destructive decisions, each one too small to flag, too numerous to track, and too deeply buried to unwind by the time you…

AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster.

I've been using Claude Code as my primary development tool for approx 9 months, and the workflow I've settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools.

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Two years ago I was just like you.

I found myself needing to create unlimited, isolated graph databases for an AI agent I'm building.

Everyone's busy tweaking prompts, swapping models, chaining tools.

Today I am sharing a powerful pattern I've implemented on the Cloudflare Developers Platform whilst building my weekends project: Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

I'm building a production-ready app entirely on the Cloudflare Developers Platform (Basebrain) and I want to share implementation details of the key patterns I use.

I teamed up with Kyle to share the best practices to observe serverless applications.

Wide events are a very simple concept: for each request, emit a single context-rich event/log per service hop.

We self-hosted ClickHouse at Baselime for nearly 3 years.

I started Baselime, an observability startup, in October 2021. 2.5 years later we joined Cloudflare.

I had the opportunity to speak at the Serverless London Meetup once again and this time I wanted to share with developers how they can build their own observability tooling using serverless primitives and host it themselves.

When I started Baselime, one of the key shifts I noticed was the emergence of ClickHouse as a database for analytics, and I quickly realised it would be extremely good for high-cardinality and dimentionality data, which are two essential properties of data

I was invited to give a talk at Node Congress 2023; I spent quite a few days wondering what I could present; I had given a talk about creating an innovation engine with observability before, which people liked and I knew it could be improved and resonate…

The Serverless London Meetup invited me to give a talk, and I wanted to share something different: what's the engineering culture that enables us at Baselime to innovate extremely fast?

London Node User Group invited me to give a talk, and that came up when I was wondering if I could squeeze more performance out of my JavaScript AWS Lambda functions without re-writing in Go or Rust.

I believe this is my first ever public tech talk.