Feb 26, 2026
AI and the Balance of Engineering
Thinking about the line between productivity tools and the erosion of fundamental engineering intuition.
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I write about backend systems, reliability, DevOps, architecture, and the engineering lessons that come from building real product systems.
Feb 15, 2026
From Full Stack Engineering to Reliability Thinking
How building product features led me toward infrastructure, observability, and operational discipline.
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CI/CD Rollback Strategies
Rollback is not a backup plan in documentation. It is part of release engineering.
Read more →Dec 9, 2025
How I Think About Technical Debt
Technical debt is not evil by default. Unpriced and invisible debt is the real problem.
Read more →Nov 14, 2025
Using AI Carefully in Engineering Workflows
Where AI helps engineers, where it creates noise, and how to keep it grounded in reality.
Read more →Sep 10, 2025
Why Alert Fatigue Happens
Teams do not ignore alerts because they are careless. They ignore alerts because the alert system trained them to.
Read more →Aug 16, 2025
Building a Practical Observability Stack
How I think about logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts without overengineering the stack.
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Scaling Node Apps Properly
What actually matters when a Node service grows beyond local comfort and starts carrying real load.
Read more →Apr 11, 2025
Handling Retry Storms in Distributed Systems
Retries save systems when controlled. They crush systems when everyone retries at once.
Read more →Mar 19, 2025
The Monitoring Stack I Recommend
The stack and principles I reach for when I want visibility without turning observability into theater.
Read more →Feb 22, 2025
Liveness vs Readiness Probes Explained
A practical explanation of probe design, rollout safety, and common Kubernetes mistakes.
Read more →Jan 26, 2025
Designing Idempotent Payment Systems
How I think about retries, duplicate webhooks, race conditions, and safe payment state transitions.
Read more →Jan 8, 2025
Lessons from Production Payment Flows
Payments teach backend engineers humility fast. These are the lessons that mattered most to me.
Read more →Dec 6, 2024
What I Automated This Month
A running note on the small automations that reduce friction in engineering work.
Read more →Nov 17, 2024
Docker vs Bare Metal: My Experience
What containerization improved for me, and where bare-metal style deployment still reveals important tradeoffs.
Read more →Oct 20, 2024
Zero-Downtime Deployments Explained
A practical breakdown of rolling deployments, health checks, drains, and rollback discipline.
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Notes on Engineering Workflow
Thinking about how I approach technical work and systems thinking.
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