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Blog 25 days ago
Mindful coding: Purpose and intention
Good code doesn't only describe what it does. It communicates why it exists. A look at how intent shapes names, abstractions, comments, and commit messages.
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Blog 1 month ago
Retries don't fix eventual consistency
Retries are great for transient failures, but they can't solve eventual consistency. Treating one problem as the other often adds unnecessary complexity to distributed systems.
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Blog 2 months ago
What even are microservices?
Everyone recognizes a microservice but nobody can define one. That's because microservices don't solve a technical problem, they solve an organizational one.
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Blog 2 months ago
Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Blog 2 months ago
GraphQL: The leakiest of abstractions
Every abstraction leaks. GraphQL is the only one I know that leaks in both directions: out to the frontend and back into the backend.
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