The REST Cargo Cult Has Gone Too Far Let’s address the elephant in the room first. Half the “RESTful” APIs I’ve encountered in production wouldn’t know Roy Fielding’...Read More
The Great Developer Experience Lie We Tell Ourselves Every engineering team has that one person who insists their build takes “just a few minutes” while the rest of us watch our CI pipelin...Read More
The 3 AM Production Alert That Changed Everything Picture this: your API is processing 50,000 requests per minute when suddenly every client starts timing out. The database is fine. The servers have p...Read More
Why Your First Open Source Project Should Solve Your Own Problem After watching countless engineers struggle with their first open source contribution, I’ve noticed a pattern. The most successfu...Read More
Why Most Code Reviews Are Performance Theater After fifteen years of watching developers perform the elaborate dance of code review, I’ve concluded that most teams are essentially LARPing qualit...Read More