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01
Aug 20, 2024
3 min read
Real Engineering Lessons
A critical workflow got slower as the platform grew. My first thought was infrastructure, but most of the improvement came from understanding what the application and database were actually doing.
02
Jun 11, 2024
3 min read
Production, Reliability, and Scale
A growing SaaS product didn’t immediately need more services. First, we needed to know which workload was growing and where the current system was reaching a limit.
03
Feb 13, 2024
2 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
A B2B dashboard took several seconds to load and the database looked like the problem. The real issue wasn’t its capacity, but the way the application was asking for the data.
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Jun 20, 2023
3 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
A familiar stack may not make an architecture diagram more interesting, but it can make incidents, onboarding and future changes easier for the team.