James C. Mooney

Technical guides

Notes from the systems side.

Practical write-ups on building software, designing systems, and developing product judgment. These sit beside the photography portfolio as a separate shelf: less gallery, more field manual.

FORMAT - STATIC HTML TOPICS - SYSTEMS · PRODUCT · AI AUTHOR - JAMES C. MOONEY
01
Field guide · AWS

Serverless Systems

Common serverless system designs on AWS, from static delivery and APIs to queues, workflows, analytics pipelines, and audit trails.

~25 min · diagramsRead guide ->
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Field course · Product

The Product Casebook

An eight-module product management course for mid-career professionals, with diagnostics, review cards, worksheets, and framework notes.

8 modules · local progressStart course ->
02
Field guide · LLM architecture

Building on Models

How to construct, spend, and defend the context budget behind retrieval, tools, agents, evaluation, latency, cost, and production deployment.

8 modules · diagrams · local progressStart guide ->

Why guides? The label is broad enough for courses, primers, and technical essays without pretending every page is the same format. If this section later becomes a subdomain, the content model can move cleanly as a collection.