Blog
Engineering notes, research, and company writing from RUBIKLABS.
What the first partner gets.
Early access to a platform has a specific price: shape it. Here is what we are offering the first team to build on our stack.
5 min read
The paradox is the problem.
Why we framed our work around bounded planets and boundless systems — and what that framing costs us in any given engineering decision.
8 min read
Why we open-sourced Jacpol.
The authorization engine under every RUBIKLABS service is now public. Here is why we put our own permissions layer in the open.
7 min read
Three products, one platform.
Jacpol and Mail are public. Cloud is on the way. All three run on the same stack beneath. Here is the boundary we drew and why.
9 min read
Ten years of a name.
RUBIKLABS started as a lab in 2016, incorporated as a company in 2021, and is drawing its next chapter in 2026. This is what each date meant.
6 min read
Six services under one pager.
Compute, storage, databases, CI/CD, observability, 24×7 IT. The engineering reality of running six services behind a single on-call rotation.
7 min read