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Articles on architecture, delivery, and technical leadership.

Published Aug 17, 20268 min

Why Every Workflow Is Really a State Machine

A status dropdown is not a workflow. Mental Models #14 on illegal transitions, named commands, and why every real workflow is a state machine.

Published Aug 12, 20266 min

Data Contracts Matter More Than APIs

Published Aug 10, 20267 min

Building Systems That Recover Instead of Restart

Published Aug 5, 20267 min

Why Race Conditions Are Business Problems

Published Jul 31, 20267 min

The Problem with Shared Databases

Published Jul 29, 20267 min

Why Eventual Consistency Is Usually Correct

Published Jul 25, 20268 min

The Hidden Cost of Synchronous APIs

Published Jul 22, 20267 min

Why CRUD Stops Scaling Before Databases Do

Published Jul 18, 20269 min

Idempotency Is the Unsung Hero of Enterprise Software

Published Jul 15, 20267 min

Why Retries Make Bugs Worse