It Doesn't Read. It Matches.
Or: the smartest system I ever shipped could not tell you what month it is.
The stories below are composites. Products, customers and companies have
distributed systems
The Upside Down Codebase: Rewrite or Update?
If you haven’t watched Stranger Things, stop reading this and go watch it. I’ll wait.
Back? Good.
For the rest of us: Hawkins,
Distributed Systems Don’t Fail. They Gaslight.
Something broke. A customer can’t update a record. SLA is ticking.
You open Kibana. There are logs. Thousands of them. You know the rough
I Gave an AI the Keys to My Codebase. Here’s What Survived Production.
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Very Expensive Prompt Engineer
The Hype Arrives at Your Door
I resisted longer than most.
MongoDB and the Art of Not Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Actually Read the Documentation
There’s a special kind of developer. You’ve met them. They discover