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Arbian Shkodra: VP of Engineering, builder & experimenter.

arbian@shkodra:~$ cat about.txt

I work at the edge of AI agents and infrastructure: building, wiring, and breaking things across the whole stack. By day I'm VP of Engineering at Sent.dm, running messaging systems at scale. The rest of the time I'm experimenting with agent workflows, LLM tooling, and whatever I can't stop poking at. I like traces over logs, boring tech where it counts, and shipping the smallest thing that works.

arbian@shkodra:~$ ls ~/interests

ai-agents/   llm-tooling/   distributed-systems/   gitops/   observability/   experiments/

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# latest posts

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  • 202 Accepted is a promise, not a receipt
    Accepting a request you never validated moves the failure off your caller and onto your customer, hours later, on a channel nobody is watching.
  • Your read-replica fallback only catches absence
    A fallback wired to exceptions handles a replica that is gone. It is structurally blind to one that is merely behind, and that is the failure that returns a 200 with the wrong number.
  • Why zero-downtime deployments need a reverse proxy
    The one architectural constraint people miss when building GitOps for Docker Compose, and why I couldn't design it away.

# recent projects

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  • accelero
    GitOps-powered zero-downtime Docker Compose deployments. ArgoCD/Flux, but for Compose.

# connect

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  • [email protected]
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