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Thoughts on marketing, strategy decisions, and lessons learned. Decisions document the choices I've made and why. Articles explore frameworks and strategies. Talks share my thinking on stage.
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Incident Management: Lessons from 5 Years of On-Call Practical insights on building effective incident response processes, reducing MTTR, and creating a sustainable on-call culture. Read more Scaling Microservices Without Losing Your Mind Practical lessons from scaling a platform from 10 to 200+ microservices, covering patterns that worked, anti-patterns we discovered, and organizational changes that made it possible. Read more Event Sourcing: Lessons Learned from Production After running an event-sourced system in production for 2 years, here are the lessons I learned about when event sourcing is worth the complexity and when it's not. Read more Event Sourcing in Practice: Patterns and Pitfalls After implementing event sourcing in three production systems over five years, I share what actually works, what doesn't, and when you should (and shouldn't) reach for this pattern. Read more Treating Technical Debt as Investment, Not Burden A framework for quantifying, prioritizing, and communicating technical debt to stakeholders in terms they understand. Read more Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: A Practical Guide How to evolve your database schema without taking your application offline, with real examples from PostgreSQL migrations. Read more Building Resilient APIs: Patterns for Production A practical guide to building APIs that gracefully handle failures, with real-world examples from production systems. Read more Microservices vs Monolith: Making the Right Choice A decision framework for choosing between microservices and monolithic architecture, based on team size, domain complexity, and organizational factors. Read more Making Code Reviews Actually Effective How to transform code reviews from a bottleneck into a tool for knowledge sharing, quality improvement, and team growth. Read more Observability Beyond Logging: Traces, Metrics, and Understanding Production A practical guide to implementing observability that actually helps you understand and debug production systems. Read more