by iqentity | Feb 15, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I have been the person who gets called when things are broken for over two decades. Server failures, security breaches, botched migrations, ransomware incidents, infrastructure collapses. The pattern is always the same: something is on fire, the client is panicking,...
by iqentity | Feb 8, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Early in the design process, I considered building two separate systems: one for professional artifacts and one for personal. The professional system would handle technical remediation, client management, and business operations. The personal system would handle life...
by iqentity | Feb 7, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Every serious project starts with a language decision, and most teams make it by defaulting to whatever they already know. I am making this one deliberately because the choice has downstream consequences that compound. What Tessera Needs Tessera’s core function...
by iqentity | Feb 1, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The retrieval architecture is only as good as the data behind it. For Tessera to work, it needs to ingest, parse, classify, and index twenty-three years of professional and personal artifacts. The volume is significant. The variety is worse. Emails in multiple...
by iqentity | Jan 25, 2024 | Development, Tessera
A retrieval system that surfaces relevant information is useful. An agentic system that surfaces relevant information and then does something with it is transformative. The difference is the gap between a reference librarian and a chief of staff. Tessera is not a...
by iqentity | Jan 19, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I have been sketching the architecture for what I am tentatively calling Tessera. Named for the small tiles that compose a mosaic. Individual decisions are small. Together, they form a picture of how a mind works. The critical design insight came this week: the goal...
