Writing
Notes on backend engineering, distributed systems and building things that hold up.
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I Keep Overengineering Things
I spent way too long building abstractions nobody asked for. Some thoughts on why that happens and what I'm trying to do differently.
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Some Things I Picked Up Working with Kafka
Notes from building an event-driven system for a project. Schemas, idempotency, partition keys, and stuff I wish I'd known earlier.
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Boring Tech Is Underrated
Some thoughts on why I keep reaching for well-established tools over new ones, and when it actually makes sense to try something new.