A Different Way to Hire Founding Engineers
Early-stage startups should keep a high engineering bar without copying the hiring process of the larger companies their founders came from.
How Far Can You Get Building a CDN on Top of S3-Compatible Object Storage?
I built a small CDN data path around the S3-compatible contract shared by AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and MinIO to explore cache identity, request collapsing, revalidation, byte ranges, and the line between a caching proxy and a CDN.
Building Integration Systems That Survive Reality
Once integrations become business-critical, the work is no longer just calling APIs. Reliable integration systems need boundaries, state, failure handling, idempotency, observability, operations, and auditability.
The Hard Part of Sync Is Deciding What to Believe
Bidirectional sync turns integration into an authority problem. Reliable systems need field ownership, conflict detection, event history, reconciliation, and explainable state.
External Systems Lie
External systems do not fail only during outages. They drift, evolve, and quietly violate the assumptions your product has turned into invariants.