SRE Core Areas: What Breaks Under Pressure
Four production scenarios worked through as an incident log — peak-load errors, misrouted traffic, a silent autoscaler, and stale reads after failover. Reasoning patterns worth keeping close.
Read the post →The Twelve-Factor App — A Blueprint
A schematic walkthrough of the Twelve-Factor App methodology — codebase, config, backing services, disposability, logs, and the rest — laid out as a build pipeline from foundation to operations.
Read the post →Dear Complexity, We Need to Talk
A love letter to simplicity in AI systems — on RAG pipelines that don't need six re-ranking stages, models that ship instead of sitting in notebooks, and why every added layer is a promise you have to keep.
Read the post →Boundaries: The Art of Deciding What Not to Couple
The best architecture decisions are rarely about what to connect — they're about what to deliberately keep apart. Notes on coupling, cohesion, and drawing boundaries that survive change.
Read the post →Leadership Through Influence
In distributed systems work, the person who unblocks the migration is rarely the person with the title. Notes on leading through credibility, clarity, and consistency — not authority.
Read the post →From Clay Tablets to Thinking Machines
A visual timeline tracing technology's biggest turning points — from the abacus and the printing press through ENIAC, the internet, the smartphone, and today's AI models.
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