Writing

Notes on activation, execution, and building GAVIGO

Product thinking, execution-systems engineering, and measured results from the team building the activation and execution layer for interactive software.

Company

How we build: measurement over claims

Every capability claim we make ships with the measurement behind it and the boundary around it. A look at the engineering discipline that produces our proof.

Chan MengJune 19, 20262 min read

Engineering

What we mean by "restore"

"Restored" and "kept warm" are not the same thing. We split activation into explicit paths and account for each one honestly — including the one we don't yet support.

Chan MengJune 12, 20262 min read

Research

Preserving AI state across a pod death

We killed the process for real, then brought the working context back. A controlled measurement of restoring ~64MB of preserved model state in ~140ms — and the boundary around it.

Chan MengJune 5, 20262 min read

Engineering

Cutting startup work without touching the kernel

A controlled look at how choosing a lighter representation of the same workload cut application-level startup work from 4.45s to 1.00s — and exactly where that optimization stops.

Chan MengMay 26, 20262 min read

Product

Activation is an infrastructure problem

Discovery got solved. The seconds between a tap and a running, interactive experience did not. Here is how we treat that gap as an infrastructure problem — predict, prepare, activate, and recover.

Chan MengMay 12, 20262 min read