The Problem Pipeline failures interrupt development workflows. The typical remediation process: Scan through thousands of lines of build logs to find the error Understand the root cause Write the fix Test the change For common, repetitive failures — missing Terraform variables, incorrect region names, syntax errors—this wastes significant engineering time. We measured an average of […]
The VP of Engineering at a mid-sized SaaS company told me something last month that stuck with me. His team had grown their codebase by 340% in two years, but headcount in security had increased by exactly one person. “We’re drowning,” he said, gesturing at a dashboard showing 1,847 open vulnerability tickets. “Every sprint adds […]
“Lift and Shift” (or cloud lift) is often sold as the path of least resistance for migrating legacy systems to the cloud. The theory is simple: take your on-premises virtual machines (VMs), copy them to an IaaS provider like Azure, and enjoy immediate scalability. However, when dealing with large-scale, mission-critical systems, the physics of the […]
For years, serverless architectures have solved one half of the scalability problem. Compute is no longer the bottleneck. Platforms like AWS Lambda can absorb sudden traffic spikes without advance provisioning. But the moment the compute layer needs to persist data in a relational database, the model starts to strain. Thousands of concurrent functions quickly converge […]
GraphQL and REST are two of the most popular API frameworks currently in use, with GraphQL seeing increasing adoption. GraphQL was developed by Facebook to address key challenges in REST APIs, particularly in reducing latency for mobile applications. The debate over which is better continues within the developer community, with strong arguments on both sides. […]
When we build developer tools, we tend to optimize for performance and API consistency. When we build mathematical tools, we have to optimize for something rarer: clarity of reasoning. Writing software for mathematicians, researchers, and educators requires a different mindset. It’s not just about whether the code runs fast; it’s about whether the code thinks […]
URI versioning, such as /v1/foo, is one of the most used methods for versioning APIs. Clients can easily comprehend it, but as your API develops, it may become challenging to manage. However, a date versioned header-based API versioning can be a little more opaque for clients, but when done properly, it provides flexibility and maintainability. […]
Most mobile AI features silently depend on a “good enough” network. That’s fine on your office Wi-Fi. It’s not fine: On spotty 3G In the subway In a warehouse with terrible coverage When your cloud endpoint is down or throttled If your “AI feature” turns into a spinner or a generic error in those cases, […]
Most mobile AI features silently depend on a “good enough” network. That’s fine on your office Wi-Fi. It’s not fine: On spotty 3G In the subway In a warehouse with terrible coverage When your cloud endpoint is down or throttled If your “AI feature” turns into a spinner or a generic error in those cases, […]
Platform engineering has shed its experimental veneer. What began as isolated attempts by infrastructure teams to tame cloud sprawl — ServiceNow tickets piling up, Terraform modules copy-pasted across repositories, engineers slacking each other at 11 PM about which IAM role grants ECR access — has calcified into something defensible, something you can budget for. Internal […]
