Engineering judgment from a Fractional CTO.
Field notes from Konstantinos Tsolakidis, founder of WeAreFabbrik: architecture decisions, AI in production, EU CRA compliance, and what it actually takes to turn a funded idea into a production-grade product. No fluff. No content-marketing filler.
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