Running a monorepo without hating your life
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Testing and monitoring ML models in production (drift, performance, quality)
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Event-Driven Systems: Beautiful on Paper, Nightmarish in On-Call
You know that feeling when an architecture looks absolutely stunning in a whiteboard diagram? Event-driven architecture is the architectural equivalent of that girlfriend who looks incredible on Instagram but will drain your wallet, your sanity, and your sleep schedule. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not saying EDA is bad. I’m saying that what the conference talks don’t mention is that adopting EDA is essentially signing up for a master class in distributed systems debugging at 3 AM on a Sunday....
Practical Backpressure: Handling Traffic Spikes Without Melting Your Services
So, your service is humming along nicely. Everything’s perfect. Your metrics are green. Your team’s morale is higher than your infrastructure budget. And then—BAM—traffic spike. Suddenly you’ve got 10x the normal load, your database connections are maxed out, and your logs look like a coffee shop during finals week: chaotic, loud, and nobody knows what’s happening anymore. This is where backpressure enters the chat, and honestly, it’s one of those concepts that sounds intimidating but is actually just your system politely asking for a timeout instead of accepting everything and imploding spectacularly....
Why REST Is Still Good Enough and Everyone Should Calm Down About GraphQL
There’s a peculiar cycle in tech where something new arrives, and suddenly everyone who isn’t using it feels personally attacked. GraphQL arrived about a decade ago, and we’ve been watching the echo chamber ever since. “REST is dead,” they said. “GraphQL is the future,” they proclaimed. Meanwhile, REST APIs quietly powered 90% of the internet and went about their business unbothered. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not here to tell you GraphQL is bad....