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What we learned running the room

Runbooks, throughput figures and post-mortems. Written by the people who were on the floor, which is why the trade-offs are in there too.

Engineering

Structured output over prose: how we make LLMs safe to put in a CMS

Letting a model write into a production database is only safe if the database can reject what it produces. The validation layer is the whole design.

16 Jul 20268 min read

Event Operations
10 Jul 20267 min read
Offline-first event tech: designing for the venue Wi-Fi that will fail
Venue networks fail at the worst possible moment. What has to keep working, what can degrade, and how to tell the difference before show day.
AI in Events
4 Jul 20268 min read
Real-time AI dubbing explained: the pipeline, the latency, the trade-offs
Four hops between a speaker's lips and a delegate's ear, each with a latency cost. Where the seconds go, and where machine dubbing is the wrong answer.
Event Operations
28 Jun 20267 min read
Why registration queues form — and the four fixes that actually clear them
A registration queue is a throughput problem, not a staffing problem. Three inputs decide it, and only one of them is worth spending money on first.