Async/Await
Understanding Concurrency vs Parallelism in Modern Programming
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Leader Election and Self-Healing Distributed Systems
Understanding Coordination in Complex Systems
Common Caching Problems at Scale: A Guide For Backend Developers
Caching is supposed to make things faster. But at scale, your cache can become the very bottleneck you were trying to avoid.
Building a Connection Pool from Scratch: Internals, Design, and Real-World Insights
Most backend developers treat connection pools as invisible plumbing — useful, necessary, but abstract. Until something breaks.
Atomicity Beyond Transactions
A Compass for Modular Software Design
The API Design Manual
The API Design manual I wish someone else had written
Designing for Change: How to Anticipate the Future Without Guessing It
Software design is the art of managing change. But what kind of change should we anticipate, and how should that shape our designs?
What Happens If We All Stop Feeding the Machine?
How humans can reclaim their value in the age of AI by refusing to become just data.
Tidy First? by Kent Beck — Hits And Misses
I recently finished reading Tidy First? by Kent Beck, a short, thoughtful book that champions the habit of cleaning code as a deliberate…
Non-Functional Requirements and Modularity
When software engineers talk about requirements, we’re often talking past each other. Functional requirements are easy to write, decompose…
What Abstractions Really Are
Software developers hear about abstractions all the time. They’re hailed as the answer to complexity, the foundation of clean architecture, and the secret to flexible systems. But what is an abstraction really? Is it just a way to hide details? Is it a simplification? A mental model? Something real,
Houston, We Have a Problem: A Fictional Postmortem of a Very Real Tech Culture
A novel about outages, war rooms, and the people who break — long before the systems do.