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All public writing from Ranjib Dey on production engineering, context engineering, open source, field systems, and learning.

Context Engineering Evals Remind Me of Infrastructure Testing

Engineering & AIContext EngineeringAgent EvalsInfrastructure TestingReliability

August 11, 2026 · 9 min read

A comparison between infrastructure testing and agent evaluation, focused on hidden state, behavioral contracts, and feedback loops.

Planning Overlanding Trips Like Reliability Reviews

Field NotesOverlandingReliabilityRisk ReviewsField Planning

August 2, 2026 · 9 min read

A field note on treating overlanding plans as operational reviews with explicit assumptions, risk budgets, and verification timing.

My Personal LLM Wiki Operating Model

Learning & LifeKnowledge SystemsContext EngineeringGenAI WorkflowsPrivacy Boundaries

July 26, 2026 · 6 min read

How a personal LLM wiki can separate raw evidence, curated memory, context packs, privacy boundaries, and evaluation loops.

What Incident Taxonomies Are Really For

Engineering & AIIncident ManagementReliabilityTaxonomyProduction Engineering

July 18, 2026 · 6 min read

A reliability note on why incident categories matter only when they change prioritization, learning, and operational follow-through.

reef-pi as a Small Open Source Platform

Open Source & MakingReef-PiHardware AbstractionOpen SourcePhysical Computing

July 10, 2026 · 6 min read

A close look at reef-pi's hardware abstraction layer as the line that turned a controller project into a small open-source platform.

The Through-Line From Chef to Agentic AI

Engineering & AIChefAgentic AIInfrastructure as CodeContext Engineering

July 5, 2026 · 6 min read

A systems-through-line from Chef, infrastructure automation, and TDD in operations to context engineering for agentic AI.

Treating Context Like Code

Engineering & AIContext EngineeringAgentic AIPromptingPrivacy Boundaries

June 28, 2026 · 6 min read

Why reusable prompts and context packs deserve versioning, review, privacy boundaries, failure modes, and evaluation loops.

reef-pi and Public Engineering Lessons

Open Source & MakingReef-PiDocumentationOpen SourceHardware

May 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Lessons from reef-pi as a public engineering artifact that must survive real users, hardware variation, and community support.

Platform Engineering Through Automation

Engineering & AIPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeAutomationProduction Engineering

May 31, 2026 · 3 min read

How automation, testing, and platform thinking connect infrastructure-as-code work with later production engineering practice.

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May 31, 2026 · 1 min read

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