Distributed Systems Don't Have to Be Distributed Nightmares
Most teams reach for microservices before they've earned them. Here's a framework for deciding when each architecture makes sense.
Zero-Downtime Deployments Without the Hype
Blue-green, canary, rolling: which strategy actually fits your team's constraints and risk tolerance?
Why Your Sprint Retros Are a Waste of Everyone's Time
Retros degrade into therapy sessions because teams skip the one step that makes them useful: defining measurable action items.
Module Federation in Practice: Lessons from a Production Rollout
Sharing code across micro-frontends sounds elegant until you hit version drift, shared state, and CSS conflicts.
Self-Hosting in 2026: What's Changed and What Hasn't
VPS pricing dropped, container orchestration got simpler, but the operational burden of self-hosting is still real.
Design Tokens Are Just Variables With Better Marketing
A pragmatic look at when design tokens add real value versus when CSS custom properties do the job just fine.
Event Sourcing Is Not Your First Architecture
Event sourcing solves real problems beautifully, but most teams would be better served by a simpler event-driven approach first.
The Senior Engineer's Job Is Mostly Writing
RFCs, architecture decision records, runbooks, onboarding docs. The higher you go, the more your output is prose.
Docker Compose Is Still Underrated
For single-server deployments, Docker Compose with proper health checks and restart policies handles more than people think.
TypeScript Strict Mode Changed How I Think About APIs
Enabling strict mode on a legacy codebase forced a rethinking of every function boundary and data contract.