Insights & Engineering Notes

Thoughts on software, design, and building great products from the Geek Labs team.

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Engineering May 10, 2026

Why We Migrated Our Monolith to Microservices (And What We Learned)

After three years on a Rails monolith, we made the leap to microservices. Here’s our honest account of what worked, what didn’t, …

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AI Apr 28, 2026

Building a Production LLM Pipeline: Lessons from the Trenches

Integrating large language models into real production systems is very different from running demos. We share our hard-won lessons from …

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Design Apr 15, 2026

Design Systems at Scale: How We Unified 4 Products in 6 Weeks

When consistency breaks down across products, the user experience suffers. Here’s the systematic approach we used to build and roll …

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