Fractional CTO Engagements
How Non-Technical Founders Should Evaluate a Fractional CTO
Learn the three criteria that separate capable fractional CTOs from fee-collecting consultants.
Marcus Delacroix-Huang
· 10 min read
Codebase Diligence — Page 2
The Greenfield Rewrite That Diligence Talked Us Out Of
Technical due diligence revealed that refactoring beats a risky rewrite.
Priya Subramaniam
The Property Lookup That Silently Returned "Not Found"
A silent cap on in-memory data caused most lookups to fail without error.
Marcus Delacroix-Huang
The Empty AI Response Stored as a Literal String
AI models exhausting their output budget created plausible-looking fake content in customer reports.
Adaeze Okorie
Why I Didn't Block Every Merge on 35 Pre-Existing Type Errors
Blocking on pre-existing errors would have destroyed adoption of the new CI pipeline.
Adaeze Okorie
A Migration Timestamp Collision CI Couldn't See
Two migrations with identical timestamps silently skipped one in production.
Adaeze Okorie
A DNS Record That Looked Broken And Wasn't
A misplaced DNS record's prefix caused certificate validation to fail across multiple lookup tools.
Marcus Delacroix-Huang
Every Pull Request Was Running Against Production Data
Preview environments were accidentally running live production data for every code change.
Adaeze Okorie