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23 Jan 2026

A Factual Overview of Kerna Health Leadership, Funding, and a Contractor’s Experience

This article presents publicly verifiable information about Kerna Health's leadership and funding history, followed by a clearly attributed account of non-payment based on

17 Jan 2026 architecture microservices dapr distributed systems

How Your Services Should Talk (And When They Should Shut Up)

Every architect’s favorite interview question: “Should we use REST or gRPC?” Wrong question. It’s like asking Neo if he should take the red

08 Jan 2026 Tech Debt Leadership Failure Tech Burnout Employee Burnout Workplace Exploitation Startup Culture Engineering Culture business architecture management people

The Startup Survival Guide: What They Don’t Tell You About Building Someone Else’s Dream

Opening They said we were family. Funny how families work—I was there for every 3 AM emergency, every impossible deadline, every “quick pivot.” I

03 Jan 2026 architecture aws lambda serverless fastapi theater

Lambda Cold Starts Are a Cloud Tax You Don’t Have to Pay

Or: How I Built a Serverless REST API That Actually Works (Despite Management’s Best Efforts) It’s 2 AM. A patient’s heart rate

31 Dec 2025 management business people

The Circus Kingdom: How Wrong People in Wrong Places Destroy Companies

New Year’s Eve Confession Time It’s December 31st, 2025. Your LinkedIn feed is drowning in “What a year! Grateful for my amazing team!