PinnedInJavarevisitedbyThe Stateless Samurai·Jul 18, 2025I Switched to Java 21 Virtual Threads — And Woke Up to a Nightmare Nobody Warned Me AboutAlright, let me just set the mood for you. Picture this: It’s a regular Tuesday night. I’ve just rolled out Java 21 with its fancy new…A response icon33A response icon33
PinnedInStackademicbyThe Stateless Samurai·Jul 24, 2025The Multi-Tenant System Design Question That Changed How I Build Backends ForeverHave you ever been put on the spot in a system design interview and suddenly realized your mental model for SaaS is stuck in…A response icon21A response icon21
The Stateless Samurai·Oct 29GitHub Copied Almost Every Repository to Azure.Cloud capacity has limits when independent work must wait its turn. GitHub’s migration makes that uncomfortable tradeoff visible.
The Stateless Samurai·Oct 13We Made Code Nearly Free. Nobody Asked Who Would Maintain It.AI can generate a feature in minutes. The real cost appears when someone has to debug it, change it, and own it in production.
The Stateless Samurai·Oct 13Our Team Used the Same Redis Eviction Policy for Three Years.For three years our Redis cluster ran with allkeys-lru as its eviction policy, and in all that time nobody asked whether it was the right…A response icon2A response icon2
The Stateless Samurai·Aug 4OpenAI Says the AI Deserves the Credit. Mathematicians Are Left With the Responsibility.A machine can generate the argument. It still cannot stand behind it.
InAI AdvancesbyThe Stateless Samurai·Aug 3OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not Selling Intelligence. They Are Selling Someone to Blame.Open Models Are Making Intelligence Cheaper. The Frontier Labs’ Last Moat May Be the Signature at the Bottom of the Contract.
InAI AdvancesbyThe Stateless Samurai·Aug 1MCP Is Just RPC With Better Marketing: A Backend Engineer Reads the SpecI want to say upfront that I am annoyed while writing this, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Every few years backend engineering…A response icon2A response icon2
The Stateless Samurai·Jul 18AI Made Writing Code Almost Free. Understanding It Is Now the Most Expensive Part.I have spent enough time working on backend services to learn something that took me years to properly understand: clean code can still be…
The Stateless Samurai·Jul 17OpenAI Merged Codex Into ChatGPT. The IDE Is No Longer the Center of Software Development.For most of my career, software development had a physical center.A response icon1A response icon1
