Every Developer Should Understand Observability (Not Just Monitoring)
Logs, metrics, and traces aren’t three separate things—they’re three lenses on the same system
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
Why Every Team Should Have a Developer Platform
Internal developer platforms aren’t a luxury—they’re the difference between 10x and 1x engineering orgs
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQLite
The most deployed database in the world deserves more respect from backend developers
Web3 Is Mostly Nonsense, and That’s Okay
Separating the genuinely interesting blockchain primitives from the grifter ecosystem
Go Is the Language for People Who Want to Ship
Boring technology delivered fast beats clever technology delivered never
CSS Grid Changed Layout Forever and Flexbox People Need to Accept It
Grid isn’t a replacement for Flexbox—it’s the tool you keep reaching for Flexbox to do
Stop Writing Unit Tests for Your React Components
Integration tests with Testing Library give you 10x the confidence at half the maintenance cost
Docker Changed Everything. Kubernetes Is Changing It Again.
Containers won the deployment war, but orchestration is where the real complexity lives
The Git Workflow That Actually Scales
Trunk-based development with short-lived branches beats GitFlow every time
Your REST API Is Probably Fine. Stop Reaching for GraphQL.
GraphQL solves real problems—just not the ones most teams actually have