Writing
Posts & essays
I write about the problems I've actually run into - not tutorials, not hot takes. Distributed systems, CI/CD, event-driven architecture, and the team dynamics that make or break all of it.
Why I Proposed Removing Our Manual Approval Gate
Manual approval gates feel safe. They're usually not. After years of watching deployment delays compound into real production pain, I wrote a formal proposal to remove ours - and learned more from writing it than I expected.
Read post →What a Failed Database Migration Taught Me About Assumptions in Production
A migration script that worked fine in every lower environment. A deployment that looked clean. And then, 30 minutes later, errors in prod. Here's what we missed, why we missed it, and what I'd do differently.
Read post →Schema Design Mistakes That Cost You at 1.3M Events/Day
Too loose, too rigid, or just wrong. Eight years of Kafka event design lessons - what breaks, why it breaks, and how to build schemas that survive real production scale.
In progressMedallion Architecture in Practice: What the Diagrams Don't Show You
Bronze, Silver, Gold sounds clean on a whiteboard. The reality of running it on Databricks and Snowflake with operational and analytical workloads is messier and more interesting.
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