Longer than a tweet, shorter than a book. Notes from the studio on engineering practice, product decisions, hiring, and the occasional post-mortem we can share.
After six years and a lot of newer databases, boring is still winning most days. A short case for defaults.
How we moved a payments platform from a monolith to services over five months, one endpoint at a time.
What we changed after fifty hires, and why we finally dropped the take-home test.
The unglamorous boilerplate that saves us hours on every engagement. None of it is clever.
Internal tools have their own aesthetic. Here's what we've learned about doing them well.
A short retrospective on running a small software studio through a market that keeps shifting.
New essays and the occasional job posting. No tracking pixels, no drip funnel.