Robin Verlangen

Notes on software architecture, running AI in production, and the fractional CTO seat.

Answers Are Cheap. Questions Are the Work.

Answers used to be expensive. You paged a senior engineer, waited for the architect to come back from lunch, or spent two days grinding through ...

Why "deploy succeeded" is the most expensive log line in your pipeline: designing deploy systems that cannot fail silently

There's a specific kind of outage that only happens on Tuesdays at 2 PM. Nothing crashed. No alerts fired. The deploy pipeline turned green, Slack ...

Hello, I'm Robin

I'm a fractional CTO, software architect, and AI and LLM engineer. I help startups and scale-ups build engineering cultures that hold up, architectures that survive ...