Viktar Patotski ·
· Security
· 9 min read Audit fees, compliance platforms, pentests, and the engineering time nobody budgets. A realistic first-year SOC 2 number for a single-product SaaS team under 50 people, with sources.
Viktar Patotski ·
· AI
· 13 min read RAG means handing your AI the right page from your own documents before it answers. It is powerful when your knowledge base is large, changing, or per-customer. It is also something a lot of teams build too early. Here is the honest decision.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Security
· 11 min read Most breaches are not a code bug. They are a public bucket or an over-broad role nobody reviewed. Here is how to use AI for an expert first pass over your cloud, identity, and infrastructure config, and the tools and guardrails that keep it honest.
Viktar Patotski ·
· AI
· 8 min read The API price page says a few dollars per million tokens and looks cheap. That is not what your AI feature will cost. Here is the real formula, a worked example, the levers that cut the bill, and when self-hosting actually pays.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Architecture
· 6 min read Multi-tenancy means one running application serves many customers while keeping their data apart. Here is what it means, the apartment-building analogy that makes it click, the three models, and how tenants stay separated, with links to go deep on each.
Viktar Patotski ·
· Security
· 9 min read AI assistants can now scan your codebase for vulnerabilities and propose patches. Here is how to wire that into a real pipeline, why you still keep a deterministic scanner next to it, and the four places it will lie to you if you let it.