Blogs
A Quantitative Approach to Personalized Investment Planning
Defining Financial Goals and Investment HorizonTime Value of Money (TVM) Calculations: To estimate the future value of current savings and investments or the amount needed to save to meet a financial
Concurrency
Why scaling means running more processes and not bigger ones, how to split work across web, worker, and clock process types, and practical patterns for horizontal scaling with Gunicorn, Celery, and Kubernetes.
Crafting Actionable IT Alerts: A Developer's Guide to Effective Monitoring
How to build alerting systems that catch real problems without drowning your team in noise - lessons from Google SRE on symptoms vs causes, the four golden signals, and alert design.
Disposability in Software Development
Why your processes should start fast and shut down cleanly, what happens when they do not, and practical patterns for handling SIGTERM, draining connections, and designing for crash safety in containers.
Embracing Config Flexibility
Why configuration should live in the environment and never in code, what breaks when database URLs and API keys are hardcoded, and practical patterns for managing config across development, staging, and production.
On Dependency Management
Why every dependency should be explicitly declared and isolated, what breaks when applications rely on globally installed packages, and how virtual environments, lock files, and containers solve this.
One-Off Admin Processes
Why admin tasks like database migrations and data fixes should run as one-off processes in the same environment as your application, what breaks when they do not, and how to run them safely in containers and production.
Port Binding Strategies
Why your application should bind to a port and serve requests directly, what changes when you stop deploying into external web servers, and how port binding works with Docker, reverse proxies, and cloud platforms.
Simplifying Application Logging
Why your application should write logs to stdout and nothing else, what happens when applications manage their own log files, and how structured logging and log aggregation work in modern deployments.
The Codebase Principle
Why one repository should produce every deploy, what happens when codebases drift apart, and how to keep development, staging, and production running the same code.
The Dev/Prod Parity
Why 'works on my machine' is a design problem, the three gaps that cause dev/prod drift, and practical strategies for making your environments behave the same way.
Building Self-Service Platforms That Developers Actually Use
Why platform engineering matters, how self-service portals and CLIs reduce developer cognitive load, and the practical lessons from building internal developer platforms.
A Developer's Guide to Static Analysis
How static analysis tools find bugs before they ship, the false positive problem every team faces, and practical strategies for making SAST work without slowing you down.
The Stateless Processes
Why your application processes should not store anything locally, what happens when stateful processes meet horizontal scaling, and practical patterns for moving state out of your app.
Three Stages of App Deployment: Build, Release, and Run
Why separating build, release, and run stages matters, what immutable releases actually look like in practice, and how this structure makes rollbacks trivial and deployments predictable.
Understanding Backing Services
Why your application shouldn't care where its dependencies live, how connection strings encode entire relationships, and the resilience patterns that matter when services go down.
Third-Party Dependency Management: A Developer's Guide
How SBOMs help you track what's in your software, why regulations now require them with real penalties, and the practical path to managing third-party dependencies.
The Hidden Connections: Understanding the World Through Systems Thinking
How systems thinking helps us see the connections between things, understand feedback loops and leverage points, and avoid the traps that come from fixing problems in isolation.
Silence, Stories, and Strategies: The Jeff Bezos Method for Transforming Dialogue in the Boardroom
How Amazon replaced PowerPoint with narrative memos, silent reading, and structured discussion to make meetings actually productive.
Beyond Goals: How OKRs Foster Growth and Innovation
How OKRs and CFRs, pioneered by Andrew Grove at Intel and popularized by John Doerr at Google, create focus, alignment, and a culture of ambitious goal-setting.
From Numbers to Narratives: The UX of Storytelling with Data
Delving into the UX aspects of data visualization, drawing inspiration from Don Norman and Edward Tufte.
Beyond the Obvious: Seeing Through the Lens of First Principles
To get past biases, we need a careful and thoughtful approach called first principles thinking.