Code and Coordinates

How a fully automated Ansible + Terraform pipeline let us dist-upgrade 200+ production servers to Debian 13 in three days, without a single second of customer downtime.

Chief is an autonomous coding agent that breaks projects into tasks and runs Claude Code in a loop to complete them one by one. It produces one commit per task, which makes reviewing the output much easier.

Claude Code is powerful, but performance degrades as context grows. Ralph Loops solve this by wrapping your AI agent in a while loop with external state. Here's how I've been using this pattern to ship entire features overnight.

If you’re struggling to get your engineers to adopt AI, keep reading.

Claude Code is only as good as the context you give it. I've been building out a custom setup with skills, hooks, and MCP servers that's turned it into a genuine productivity multiplier for our Laravel codebase. Here's how we teach Claude our patterns, auto-suggest relevant skills on every prompt, and persist context across sessions for multi-day features.

A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.

How we solved request logging at scale by moving from MariaDB to ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector after our deprecated database engine couldn't keep up with billions of monthly requests.

We recently wrote down the development principles we've been following at Geocodio for the past 10+ years. Thought it might be interesting to share.

A crazy idea that turned into a fun mashup of software and hardware...and all of it with Laravel

MCP is so hot right now, so I spent a Hack Friday building a server that lets AI assistants enrich location data with Congressional districts, Census demographics, and more. The result? A glimpse into how we might all be using APIs in the future.

Learnings from working with MapLibre's Choropleth styling options

A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.

Learn how we leveraged Go alongside Laravel using Unix socket RPC communication to handle performance-critical operations and protect proprietary algorithms through compiled binaries.

Working with address data requires continual updates. Our in-house ETL, built on Laravel and SQLite, helps us expand our address point data on a daily basis.

Welcome to our new engineering blog where we share behind-the-scenes insights into how we build and scale Geocodio.