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4 POSTS
01
Aug 20, 2024
4 min read
Real Engineering Lessons
I worked on a government platform where one of the main workflows became slower as the amount of data increased. We improved its response time by more than 60% without changing the stack or adding more infrastructure.
02
Jun 11, 2024
6 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
4 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
A B2B dashboard took several seconds to load as its data grew. We traced the complete request and found expensive queries, missing indexes and information the screen never used.
04
Jun 20, 2023
4 min read
Backend Engineering and Architecture
We built a critical backend workflow with Java, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL because the team already knew how to deploy, monitor and support that stack.