The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Boring Stacks
Why the most productive engineering teams consistently choose technologies that cause no excitement whatsoever.
Writing
Essays on software, systems, and the ideas behind them.
Rate Limiting: A Practical Mental Model
The three types of rate limiting, when to use each one, and why the algorithm choice matters more than the number.
How I Think About System Boundaries
A boundary is not where things stop — it's where the cost of change changes. Getting this right is the core skill in software design.