Writing

14 essays, technical and otherwise, from 2013 to now. Follow along by RSS or Atom.

2026

  1. How Forge Structures Requests for Prompt Cache Reuse
  2. What engineering managers need to own as AI changes delivery
  3. Near-real-time is a product promise, not a Kafka cluster

2025

  1. The platform team’s real job is interfaces
  2. When I still choose a relational database

2024

  1. Freshness SLOs: the metric product teams actually feel
  2. GTM datasets need data contracts

2023

  1. Saying no as a platform EM without becoming the villain
  2. Identity systems fail socially before they fail cryptographically

2022

  1. What “led the web launch” taught me about constraints

2021

  1. Incubating 0→1 beside a mature product
  2. How I review a distributed design in 45 minutes

2020

  1. Introducing on-call without burning the team

2013

  1. RDBMS vs. NOSQL?