Small Servers, Big Ideas
Why a single well-tuned process often outperforms a fleet of containers for the workloads most of us actually run, and how to tell when you have outgrown it.
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Occasional writing on software, tools, and the craft of building things that last.
The Quiet Art of Defaults
Good defaults do most of the work of a product. A short look at how choosing the right starting state shapes what people build and how they feel about it.
Read more →Reading Logs Like a Detective
A practical walkthrough of structured logging, correlation IDs, and the handful of grep patterns that have saved me the most time during incidents.
Read more →On Maintaining Other People's Code
Notes from a year of looking after a small library I did not write, including what I wish the original author had documented.
Read more →Notes on Saying No
Every yes is a quiet no to something else. A few habits that have made it easier to decline work without burning bridges.
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