“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

— Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1985.

recent posts

Data Systems - Architecture and Tradeoffs
Rate limiting
building fast APIs that scale without falling apart under load
The distributed systems and why everyone gets them wrong the first time
the problem with ORMs
in defense of boring technology and why you should resist the urge to adopt the new shiny thing
database indexing, actually
caching strategies that actually work

recent notes

on tools
on documentation
naming things
on debugging
technical debt is a choice
on abstractions
microservices are an org chart
REST vs GraphQL
on meetings
on estimates
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my reads
articles The Grug Brained Developer Paul Graham Essays
philosophy Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
tools Hacker News Lobsters Excalidraw
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