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5 POSTS
01
Nov 18, 2025
3 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
I’ve built production backends with Java and Node.js. For me, the useful differences are in the workload, the team and how long we expect the system to live.
02
Oct 14, 2025
3 min read
Real Engineering Lessons
The endpoint was simple. The real work started when the operation had to handle an unavailable service, repeated requests and a process that could stop after only some steps.
03
Feb 25, 2025
3 min read
Real Engineering Lessons
The monolith had real problems, but it also had years of business behavior inside it. We modernized it in smaller steps instead of assuming a new codebase would automatically be better.
04
Nov 5, 2024
2 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
An external service can be unavailable for a few minutes. Our system shouldn’t turn every short interruption into hours of manual recovery.
05
May 14, 2024
3 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
NestJS gave our TypeScript services a shared structure. Its value became clearer when several engineers needed to understand, review and change the same backend.