Ritesh Shrivastav

Technology, Craft, and Ideas

I write in-depth articles about programming, technology and design, and share observations about books and nature.

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Understanding Compaction

Understanding Compaction

Compaction is not a bug. It is the agent's memory management layer — and once you understand it, you design around it.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 19 mins read
MCP From First Principles

MCP From First Principles

The mechanism behind every tool Claude calls — the protocol, the OS primitives, the wire format — explained from zero to the full picture.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 16 mins read
Claude on Mac: Automating Marketing, Outreach, and the Boring Stuff

Claude on Mac: Automating Marketing, Outreach, and the Boring Stuff

How Claude on Mac becomes your unfair advantage for marketing and outreach.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 15 mins read
Treating Claude as Engineering Infrastructure

Treating Claude as Engineering Infrastructure

Most teams bolt Claude on. The ones getting real value designed a system around it.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 25 mins read
The State of AI Native - Telephony

The State of AI Native - Telephony

The infrastructure layer is still catching up. Here's why that matters.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 58 mins read
A New Coat of Paint

A New Coat of Paint

The blog looks different. Here's what changed, what stayed, and why it took this long.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 4 mins read
PRLens: Open Source AI Code Review You Actually Control

PRLens: Open Source AI Code Review You Actually Control

Most AI code review tools run on infrastructure you don't own. Here's why that matters, and what I built instead.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 9 mins read
Your AI Product's Real Price Tag is Hidden

Your AI Product's Real Price Tag is Hidden

Your SaaS pricing logic doesn't work when the infra is smarter than the product.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 11 mins read
The Codingdash Test: 12 Steps to Better Engineering

The Codingdash Test: 12 Steps to Better Engineering

A 2026 update to Joel Spolsky's classic test for evaluating software team health.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 18 mins read
Catch the Train - A Story About Effort, Urgency, and Survival

Catch the Train - A Story About Effort, Urgency, and Survival

A simple moment that taught me how to catch up when you start behind.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 6 mins read
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58 posts since '14

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Scaling Serverless Beyond the First Function

Scaling Serverless Beyond the First Function

Real lessons from building and scaling serverless systems, beyond the docs and hype.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 39 mins read
Invisible Bugs

Invisible Bugs

How great engineers catch the problems no one sees, until it's too late.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 26 mins read
The Myth of Mastery - Why Algorithms Alone Won’t Solve Real-World Problems

The Myth of Mastery - Why Algorithms Alone Won’t Solve Real-World Problems

Bridging the Gap Between Algorithmic Expertise and Practical Engineering Skills
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 13 mins read
Behind the Win: How Jodo Engineered DevOps Excellence

Behind the Win: How Jodo Engineered DevOps Excellence

A look at the thinking, choices, and people behind our DevOps evolution.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 5 mins read
10 Years in the Software Industry

10 Years in the Software Industry

A Journey of Learning, Growth, and Impact
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 11 mins read

Being in the zone

Being in the zone is a part of developer productivity flow.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 2 mins read
Maintainable Code - Good and Bad

Maintainable Code - Good and Bad

How to improve code for better maintainability.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 23 mins read
Creating a Secure, Efficient, and Scalable DevOps Ecosystem

Creating a Secure, Efficient, and Scalable DevOps Ecosystem

From foundational goals to large-scale adoption—our journey in developing a resilient DevOps framework that balances security, efficiency, and scalability.
Ritesh Shrivastav · · 7 mins read

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Automating with Claude

Automating with Claude

Practical Claude workflows for marketing, engineering, and everyday work — built for people who'd rather think than repeat themselves.

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State of AI Native

State of AI Native

What AI-native actually means, built from years inside the infrastructure — one segment at a time.

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