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recent posts

hello world
Lowlatency
building fast APIs that scale without falling apart under load
why I use Go
on 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
on writing good commit messages
caching strategies that actually work
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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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tags
architecture1 backend3 craft2 culture2 databases2 distributed-systems1 engineering2 git1 go1 languages1 meta1 performance3 thinking1