Moving to Docker should simplify deployments. Ours became more complicated. Infrastructure & Architecture DevOps & Infrastructure-as-Code Jul 20, 2026 1 min read Read More
One networking decision took us 6 months to undo. Infrastructure & Architecture AWS Architecture & Cost Optimization Jul 16, 2026 1 min read Read More
Most monitoring dashboards are full of data but short on answers. Production & Reliability Incident Response & Post-Mortems Jul 13, 2026 1 min read Read More
Our monitoring showed 2,000+ exceptions. Only 3 actually mattered. Production & Reliability Error Handling & Reliability Patterns Jul 09, 2026 1 min read Read More
MVP Architecture That Won't Need Complete Rebuilds at Series A Tech Leadership & Strategy Tech Strategy for Early-Stage Startups Jul 06, 2026 1 min read Read More
A Founder Told Me SaaS Is Dead. Here's What I Think. Tech Leadership & Strategy Rails & DevOps Ecosystem Trends Jul 02, 2026 2 min read Read More
Event Sourcing & Audit Trails: Building Immutable Data Architecture Engineering for Growth Data Architecture Decisions at Scale Jun 29, 2026 2 min read Read More
Webhook Delivery & Reliability at Scale: Ensuring Nothing Gets Lost Engineering for Growth Scaling Challenges & Real-World Trade-offs Jun 25, 2026 1 min read Read More
API Gateway Decisions: Rate Limiting, Auth, and Routing at Scale Infrastructure & Architecture System Design Patterns & Trade-offs Jun 22, 2026 1 min read Read More
Database Migrations in Production: The Strategies That Don't Break Deployments Infrastructure & Architecture DevOps & Infrastructure-as-Code Jun 18, 2026 1 min read Read More
Caching Strategy That Actually Works: Redis, Fragment, Page Caching Explained Production & Reliability Rails Performance Tuning & Scaling Jun 15, 2026 1 min read Read More
The 3am Incident: How We Debugged a 30-Minute Outage in Production Production & Reliability Incident Response & Post-Mortems Jun 11, 2026 2 min read Read More
Knowledge Sharing at Scale: Documentation, Pairing, and Mentoring Tech Leadership & Strategy Engineering Culture & Team Scaling Jun 08, 2026 1 min read Read More
Build vs Buy: The Decision Matrix for SaaS Features Tech Leadership & Strategy Tech Strategy for Early-Stage Startups Jun 04, 2026 1 min read Read More
Identifying Technical Debt Worth Paying Down (Not Everything Needs Refactoring) Engineering for Growth Technical Debt & Strategic Refactoring Jun 01, 2026 1 min read Read More
SQL vs NoSQL for SaaS: When to Use Each (And Why We Chose Both) Engineering for Growth Data Architecture Decisions at Scale May 29, 2026 1 min read Read More
RDS Scaling Patterns: When Read Replicas Become Your New Problem Infrastructure & Architecture AWS Architecture & Cost Optimization May 25, 2026 1 min read Read More
Reduced Operational Complexity by Replacing 7 Applications with a Multi-Tenant Rails Architecture Infrastructure & Architecture System Design Patterns & Trade-offs May 21, 2026 2 min read Read More
Why scaling too early creates unnecessary complexity Engineering for Growth Scaling Challenges & Real-World Trade-offs May 18, 2026 1 min read Read More
Why modern SaaS is more system-driven than feature-driven Tech Leadership & Strategy Tech Strategy for Early-Stage Startups May 14, 2026 2 min read Read More