A working notebook
The garden.
Unlike the blog, these notes aren’t finished. They’re planted, tended, and occasionally pruned. Some are seeds I dropped in a hurry. Some have grown into references I come back to. None pretend to be polished.
Seeds
Early ideas, put down before they slipped away. Rough. Exploratory. Subject to change.
2 notesBudding
Thoughts developing structure. The argument is mostly there, the edges still soft.
4 notesObservability Over Debugging
If you can't observe it, you don't understand it. Logging, tracing, and alerting go in the design phase.
Zero-Downtime Patterns
Large-scale data migrations without service interruption. Dual-write, backfill, verify, switch.
Event-Driven vs Polling
Replacing five-minute polling delays with sub-second event-driven notifications changed everything.
What Production Really Means
I learned what 'production' really means when the users were healthcare professionals in hospitals.
Evergreen
Tended over time. What I go back to. What I trust enough to recommend.
2 notesBy topic