Writing
Notes on backend engineering
Technical notes and reflections from building and maintaining backend systems — the trade-offs, the incidents, and the small decisions that add up.
Backend
6 min read
Why idempotency keys aren't optional once money is involved, and how I wire them into Spring Boot services without leaking complexity into business logic.
Open Source
8 min read
A year of issues, pull requests, and 2am production bugs taught me more about API design than any course could.
Systems
7 min read
Partitions, offsets, and rebalancing stopped being scary once I stopped thinking about them as magic.
Opinion
5 min read
Novelty is fun to write about. It's less fun to be paged for at 3am. A note on choosing stability over hype.