04
Sep
The boring architecture that ships
There's a certain kind of conference talk that goes: we had a monolith, we broke it into microservices,
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Engineering
08
May
When to build vs buy: a framework I actually use
Engineering teams relitigate this question constantly: should we build it ourselves or use an existing solution? The debate usually goes
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22
Jan
Self-hosting everything: what I learned running my own stack
About a year ago I stopped paying for most of the SaaS tools I'd accumulated and started running
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08
Mar
Why performance isn't always the north star
I spend a lot of time thinking about performance. I use Cap'n Proto over Protobuf because parsing overhead
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