Engineering Notes

Crossing 1M rows wasn't our scaling problem. Choosing the wrong scaling strategy would have been.

One database migration involved 120M+ records. Downtime was never an option.

AI & SaaS Evolution: What Changes When Software Starts Building Software

Explore how AI is changing SaaS from pricing and product design to engineering, infrastructure, and competitive advantage.

Moving to Docker should simplify deployments. Ours became more complicated.

One networking decision took us 6 months to undo.

Most monitoring dashboards are full of data but short on answers.

Our monitoring showed 2,000+ exceptions. Only 3 actually mattered.

MVP Architecture That Won't Need Complete Rebuilds at Series A

A Founder Told Me SaaS Is Dead. Here's What I Think.

Event Sourcing & Audit Trails: Building Immutable Data Architecture

Webhook Delivery & Reliability at Scale: Ensuring Nothing Gets Lost

API Gateway Decisions: Rate Limiting, Auth, and Routing at Scale

Database Migrations in Production: The Strategies That Don't Break Deployments

Caching Strategy That Actually Works: Redis, Fragment, Page Caching Explained

The 3am Incident: How We Debugged a 30-Minute Outage in Production

Knowledge Sharing at Scale: Documentation, Pairing, and Mentoring

Build vs Buy: The Decision Matrix for SaaS Features

Identifying Technical Debt Worth Paying Down (Not Everything Needs Refactoring)

SQL vs NoSQL for SaaS: When to Use Each (And Why We Chose Both)

RDS Scaling Patterns: When Read Replicas Become Your New Problem