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Notes from the work

Essays and field notes on building production systems — architecture, scaling, and the unglamorous parts that actually matter.

Designing systems you can delete

Why the best abstraction is often the one that is easy to throw away.

Lessons from running a streaming platform at hundreds of thousands of users.

Where strict types pay off, and where they just get in the way.

A pragmatic playbook for connecting SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics.

A boring, reliable default stack for shipping products fast.

A simple test for whether a layer of indirection is worth it.

Retrieval, evals, and a fast iteration loop — the parts that actually ship.