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Nov 8, 2025

Architecture Patterns That Actually Scale In 2026: The Only Three You Need

Last month, a company I advised shut down.

Architecture Patterns That Actually Scale In 2026: The Only Three You Need

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Oct 27, 2025

You Don’t Need GitHub: Your SSH Server Is Already a Git Host

I wasted three years.

You Don’t Need GitHub: Your SSH Server Is Already a Git Host

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Sep 15, 2025

PostgreSQL 18 Killed My Cache Layer — And I Am Not Bringing It Back

I turned off Redis in production and did not roll it back. That sentence still makes my stomach flicker because a cache feels like a…

PostgreSQL 18 Killed My Cache Layer — And I Am Not Bringing It Back

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Sep 16, 2025

What Is The “C” Of Functional Programming? The Brutally Honest Answer

You asked me a spicy question: “Is there a ‘C’ of functional programming — something thin, close to the metal, and fast if you know what…

What Is The “C” Of Functional Programming? The Brutally Honest Answer

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Oct 1

I Gave an AI Agent Memory. Then I Realized It Could Remember the Wrong Thing Forever.

The next generation of AI won’t just remember what you said. It will remember what it believed you said, and that changes the security…

I Gave an AI Agent Memory. Then I Realized It Could Remember the Wrong Thing Forever.

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Sep 30

I Gave the Same Task to 5 AI Agents. Then I Realized the Model Wasn’t the Variable.

I started by trying to find the smartest coding agent.

I Gave the Same Task to 5 AI Agents. Then I Realized the Model Wasn’t the Variable.

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Sep 25

I Rebuilt My Spring Boot API in Quarkus. Then I Found Out What Actually Made It Fast.

I thought I was comparing two Java frameworks.

I Rebuilt My Spring Boot API in Quarkus. Then I Found Out What Actually Made It Fast.

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Sep 24

I Increased the Database Connection Pool. Then My API Got Slower.

I thought more connections meant more concurrency. PostgreSQL had a different opinion.

I Increased the Database Connection Pool. Then My API Got Slower.

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Sep 23

I Asked an AI One Database Question. Then I Watched It Build the SQL From Scratch.

I thought I was asking a chatbot for an answer. I was actually watching it reverse-engineer a database.

I Asked an AI One Database Question. Then I Watched It Build the SQL From Scratch.

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Sep 21

I Gave an AI Agent Permission to Deploy My Code. Then I Watched What It Did.

The interesting part wasn’t the deployment. It was everything the agent had to do before it could press the button.

I Gave an AI Agent Permission to Deploy My Code. Then I Watched What It Did.

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I build things that scale. I debug things that lie. And I write about the moments that haunt production at 2AM.

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