Archive

Rolling updates, health checks, and the one YAML field that kept bringing my stack down at 2am.

Typed, logged, and ready to drop into any project. Under 40 lines.

A deep architectural walkthrough covering tenant isolation, connection pooling, row-level security.

After two decades of adopting every new thing, I finally found the value of staying still.

Why object shape matters for JavaScript performance, and how to avoid accidental deoptimizations.

A career retrospective: the patterns I keep returning to and the ones I've finally let go.

Distributed locking without Redis, using what your database already gives you.

Lessons from maintaining 40+ modules across three environments.

Card games, flowchart puzzles, and the surprising power of pseudocode on a whiteboard.

Real-time updates without WebSockets. Simpler than you think.