Engineering Insights

Engineering Insights is an author-led section on building application systems, architecture, integrations, legacy work, and delivery practice. Articles reflect the author's engineering perspective—not a corporate press feed.

Mikhail Popov — Founder of ORILIX and Head of Engineering. More than 20 years in software systems development.

Published articles

Engineering illustration: careful measurement before AI executes a change at speed.

How AI made me rethink not just development speed, but the engineering process itself 15 September 2026 · 12 min read Read article →

A glowing black box on a developer's desk, labeled SOLVES EVERYTHING (ALMOST).

On Python, third-party libraries, abstraction, and the point where convenience turns into architectural dependency. 15 September 2026 · 9 min read Read article →