Notes on ML engineering, evaluation, data platforms and delivery, from the Thrivee team in Novi Sad.https://thrivee.io/enhttps://thrivee.io/insights/taking-over-a-codebase/https://thrivee.io/insights/taking-over-a-codebase/Inheriting a system is a normal way for engagements to start. The first week decides whether the next three months go well, and it is not spent writing features.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeliveryEngagementsLegacyhttps://thrivee.io/insights/performance-budget-in-ci/https://thrivee.io/insights/performance-budget-in-ci/Sites get slow one reasonable pull request at a time. The fix is not a quarterly audit — it is a threshold that fails the build the day the regression lands.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWebPerformanceCIhttps://thrivee.io/insights/five-questions-training-pipeline/https://thrivee.io/insights/five-questions-training-pipeline/A short diagnostic we run in the first days of an ML engagement. Most of the time the answers explain the delivery problem better than the code does.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMLOpsReproducibilityEngagementshttps://thrivee.io/insights/native-or-cross-platform/https://thrivee.io/insights/native-or-cross-platform/The question has a right answer for your app, and it is usually decidable in an afternoon. Here is the test we apply, and the costs each side hides.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMobileArchitectureDecisionshttps://thrivee.io/insights/eval-harness-before-prompt/https://thrivee.io/insights/eval-harness-before-prompt/Prompt changes without measurement are a coin flip you cannot audit. What a minimum viable evaluation setup looks like, and how to wire it into CI in a day.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLMEvaluationCI