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Meet Toki, our AI Assistant

An internal AI assistant — named after the Japanese 時 / とき (time, moment, era, opportunity) — autonomously resolved 32.5% of intervened engineering support requests over four weeks. A look at how it's plugged in, its quirks, and where it's actually helping versus where humans still own the work.

Medium

Another Try at LLM Workflow Automation

After repeated attempts at LLM workflow automation, a first real success comes not from smarter models but from scaffolding — small, scoped tools around the LLM that iterate, validate, and fit into existing workflows without a chatbox in sight.

Medium

Tried to Automate Engineering Support, and I Succeeded, Well... Kind'a

~15% of engineering time goes toward support work. After attempting a self-evolving knowledge graph and failing, a more practical AI-assisted approach emerged — one that lets a single engineer handle triage 10 to 30 times faster.

Medium

Why We're Splitting Our ETL Pipeline Into Three Independent Layers

Most ETL pipelines combine ingestion, change detection, and transformation into a single process. Learn why we're pulling them apart into three independent stages — and the early signs that suggest it might be the right call.

Medium

Becoming Protocols

A reflection on how AI tools are reshaping how we communicate and create content online. Using AI to express ourselves is powerful — when used with intent — but we risk dissolving into the systems we use if we're not careful to remain present in what we produce.

Medium

From AI-Orchestrated to AI-Practical: What Two Weeks of Obsession Actually Taught Me

A follow-up reflection on dismantling an AI orchestration system and rebuilding a practical, overhead-free workflow. This article explores the gap between what's theoretically possible with AI agents and what's practically useful today.

Medium

From AI-Assisted to AI-Orchestrated: A Software Engineer's Reluctant Evolution

A personal reflection on the transition from using AI as a coding assistant to fully embracing AI-orchestrated development workflows. This article explores the mindset shift required to move beyond traditional software engineering practices and adapt to a new paradigm where AI agents handle increasingly complex tasks.

Toggl Engineering Blog

A journey into PostgreSQL logical replication - the next chapter

Toggl Engineering shares how they expanded their PostgreSQL logical replication CDC pipeline to support event-driven architecture and OLAP features. The team discusses challenges overcome and practical optimization techniques for handling near real-time data transformations across multiple transactional databases.

Toggl Engineering Blog

A journey into PostgreSQL logical replication

Toggl Track faced challenges serving analytical reporting needs alongside their transactional database. The engineering team implemented a PostgreSQL logical replication pipeline to stream data changes in near real-time, but discovered critical misconceptions about LSN offset tracking that caused data inconsistencies in production.