Your Job Is Not Your Career
“The company isn’t your family. You’re not married to your employer. Your loyalty belongs to your career.”
Maneesh Chaturvedi
The Developer’s Edge: Manage Energy, Not Just Time
“You can’t sprint through a marathon — and software development is definitely a marathon.”
Part 2: Timing is Everything — Shifting Computation and Relaxing Guarantees
“Performance isn’t always about doing less. Sometimes, it’s about doing it at the right time — or not doing it at all.”
Part 1: Cut the Fat — Timeless Optimisation Lessons from Networking Systems
How networking teaches us to strip away waste, unnecessary abstractions, and misplaced generality in any high-performance system.
7 Fundamental Strategies For High Performance Distributed Systems
Modern distributed systems must be fast, fault-tolerant, and scalable. Achieving these properties requires thoughtful architectural…
Why Most Organisations Are Driving Business Innovation Wrong
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” — Michael Porter
Designing With Concepts
“Designing good software isn’t just about writing good code. It’s about thinking clearly about what the code represents.”
Stop Fighting Tests. Fix the Code Instead.
Many developers think that writing unit tests is tedious because of how tricky mocks, frameworks, or test setup can be.
A Pragmatic Take on the DRY(Don’t Repeat Yourself) Principle
“Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.”
Forget Defensive Programming: Make Illegal States Impossible
Stop sprinkling if-guards and start encoding your domain’s rules directly in the types.
Stop Confusing Layers of Abstraction with Separation of Concerns
Developers often treat “abstraction layers” and “separation of concerns” as interchangeable terms. But in software design, they represent…
What Causality Can Teach Us About Software Coupling
Most developers are taught to look for patterns in data — but patterns don’t always tell the whole story. Correlation can mislead. The…