Stop Hiding Your Operational Costs in Your Engineers' Payroll
Cutting a SaaS invoice is easy. Measuring the hidden operational cost you push onto your engineering team is not.
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Tech Debt Is How You Learn Your Codebase Is a Business Asset
In some companies, “technical debt” doesn’t even exist as a real concept. Mention it in a meeting and you get the look: this is a nice engineer word, but it doesn’t apply here. The product ships, revenue grows, incidents are “manageable”… so what exa...
Jan 27, 202611 min read138Betting Against Evolvability: MongoDB, Joins, and Architectural Commitments
Systems don’t stay where they started In Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann uses the term evolvability in a very practical way: real systems tend to not stay where they started.You design a service with one set of assumptions lik...
Jan 12, 20265 min read5Stop Designing Starbucks APIs: Defaults, Options & Complexity
What coffee shops can teach you about cognitive load, obscurity, and API design.
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