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Notes from the field.

How we solve real engineering problems — the diagnosis, the decision, and the numbers after.

September 5, 2026 —Izumiti Labs

From manual INSERTs to self-service: AstralQ v1 to v2

Every new client meant credentials over email and rows inserted by hand. In v2, the seller clicks Connect, authorizes with their Amazon account, and their tenant is born — encrypted, isolated, pipeline running.

September 4, 2026 —Izumiti Labs

When the ERP becomes the problem: from an overgrown Odoo to a right-sized inventory

Field teams logging physical assets into a giant ERP and losing track of them. We built a right-sized inventory system with QR and roles in weeks — and migrated the ERP data without losing a single record.

May 7, 2026 —Jonathan Almanza

USD 1,600 a month for a pipeline that ran once a day

A client was paying for Redshift, Glue and a row of Lambdas to serve 30 GB queried once a day. We switched almost everything off, made PostgreSQL the orchestrator, and the bill dropped 91%.