Everything I have written, organized by whatever catches your eye. Filter by topic or just scroll and see what sticks.
The difference between a clean deploy and a 3 AM Slack message is often just a few lines of shutdown logic.
We left the devices at home. Just fog, tide pools, and an alarming amount of chowder.
Most retry implementations I see in the wild are either too naive or too clever. Here is the one I have used for five years.
"So it's like a waiter but for computers?" Close enough.
After migrating three monoliths to microservices and then two of them back, I have some thoughts. The industry obsession with distributed systems as a default starting point is costing teams years.
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."Edsger W. Dijkstra
Full parts list, configuration, and what I would do differently.
I spent a decade optimizing my morning routine. Then I had kids.
Event sourcing applied to a real e-commerce platform, with all the ugly parts included.
Integration tests catch more real bugs with less brittle test code. I will die on this hill.
A small CLI tool that strips sensitive values from .env files before sharing. Built it after accidentally committing a Stripe key for the third time.
My son's Scratch game had a bug. I watched him systematically narrow it down. He has never read a debugging book in his life. Maybe it is more instinct than skill.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."Martin Fowler