Writing
Writing shaped as systems, not streams.
Writing that maps systems and makes them legible.
SQLite vs. PostgreSQL: A Production Engineering Decision Framework A systems-level breakdown of SQLite and PostgreSQL — concurrency models, WAL mechanics, failure modes, and when the conventional wisdom is wrong.
Inside LinkedIn's AED System: How 6,167 Extension Probes Build a Device Dossier A backend engineer's breakdown of LinkedIn's Active Extension Detection system — the fingerprinting pipeline, the data model, the distributed surveillance architecture, and what it means when a platform weaponizes browser primitives against its own users.
NASA’s Rules for Code That Can’t Fail — Revisited for AI-Generated Systems Applying NASA's legendary JPL flight software discipline to modern backend infrastructure and the era of AI-generated code.
SQL Window Functions in Production: What the Tutorials Don't Tell You Window functions aren't just a cleaner syntax for analytics. Understanding their execution model, cost profile, and failure modes is what separates a working query from one that takes down your reporting replica.
Go Maps Never Shrink: Diagnosing Heap Retention in Production Services A production postmortem on Go's map memory model, why deleting keys doesn't reclaim heap, how this compounds in long-running services, and what Rust's HashMap design teaches us about explicit control in backend systems.