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Engineering insights on system architecture, performance, reliability, observability, and scaling software systems without slowing teams down.

10 Years of Engineering: The Lessons Nobody Tells You Early

Building software is not about perfect code, fancy patterns, or being the smartest person in the room. It’s judgment, simplicity, communication, and the discipline to ship even when everything feels messy. This is what I wish someone had told me at year zero.

Why "Monolith" Became a Bad Word

Everyone fell in love with microservices, but complexity came free. Modular monoliths might just be the smarter path for most teams today. Even Amazon and Shopify circled back. Here's why that matters if you're building something new.

Why I Had to Ask a Junior Dev to Stop Using AI

AI makes you faster - unless it makes you lazy. Here’s the real story of asking a junior dev to pause ChatGPT, and what it taught me about product judgment.

The Bug Was the System

We fixed the tools. We cleaned up the code. But something still felt off. Everyone was doing their job, but velocity kept slipping. I couldn’t shake the feeling that what we were fixing wasn’t the thing that was broken.

Why We Made Copilot Mandatory (and Would Do It Again)

Everyone said "just try it," so we did. Then we made it non-optional. Not because we love AI, but because we hate wasting smart people’s time on dumb stuff.

Node.js vs Golang: A Practical Deep Dive

Go or Node? One is ergonomic, the other is a performance beast. After 8 years of building products in both, here's what scales, what breaks, and when to switch.

Smart Polling in Flutter: Build It Once, Run It Right

Most polling in Flutter is wasteful. This post shares a production-ready Dart class that handles lifecycle, timeouts, and smart intervals no spaghetti timers.