The Silent Rewrite of Software Engineering
The ground beneath software engineering is shifting, and the teams moving fastest aren’t rejecting LLMs, they’re weaponising them.
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Engineering
Engineering insights on system architecture, performance, reliability, observability, and scaling software systems without slowing teams down.
Why Rewrites Fail and Ugly Code Survives
Messiest parts of your codebase are usually the ones holding your entire business together. Rewriting them might be the fastest path to losing customers.
The Art of Breaking Things on Purpose
Instead of hoping systems don’t fail, what if you break them on purpose? To find weak spots before the world does. Netflix, Uber, and Google turned Chaos Engineering into a discipline. Here’s why it matters, how it works, and why it’s the best way to build resilient systems.
Structured Logging Explained: Levels, Examples, and Best Practices
Debugging with bad logs is like investigating a crime without CCTV. Structured logs give you the clarity and evidence you need when systems misbehave.
What is API Observability? Logs, Metrics, Traces Explained
The hardest outages aren't when systems go down-they're when you have no idea what's happening inside. API observability is how you make your system explorable in real time.
What is API Reliability?
Building APIs without a reliability layer is like running a city with no backup generators. The lights stay on until the first power cut.
Running Lean and Building Faster
Most startups don’t fail because they couldn’t build. They fail because they built too much, too early, and in the wrong direction. This is how I learned to stay lean, move fast, and build only what real user behavior actually justifies.
The Myth of the Talent Shortage
The myth of a talent shortage hides the real issue: gaps in how we hire. By fixing HR screens, tech rounds, and culture, leaders can unlock stronger teams.
Simplest explanation for a phenomenon is usually the best one
Everything broke at the worst possible moment. We moved fast, hit every layer, ruled out every theory. Still nothing. Until we circled back to something so basic, we almost missed it.
Flutter Is Taking Over
I started out writing native code and believed in it fully. But Flutter has evolved into something rare, a truly cross-platform system that doesn't feel like a compromise. In 2025, it's earning its spot as a real default.