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Staff engineer · distributed systems · developer tooling

Notes from the trenches on backend architecture, reliability, and the small decisions that compound. New write-ups most weeks.

Latest posts

Designing idempotent job queues

Exactly-once is a lie — here's how to get effectively-once without losing your weekend.

May 28, 2026 · 11 min read

A pragmatic guide to connection pooling

Pool sizing, timeouts, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.

May 14, 2026 · 8 min read

Feature flags without the tech debt

A lifecycle for flags so they don't outlive the feature by two years.

Apr 30, 2026 · 6 min read

Reading a flame graph in 90 seconds

The three shapes that explain most latency problems.

Apr 19, 2026 · 7 min read

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