// Writing

Notes on building systems that scale.

Written after shipping to production—with the database schemas, architectural trade-offs, and code. About one a month.

articles

a month, roughly

// 6 posts

2026-09-18

The last hundred milliseconds

Getting an API and UI from fast to instant is a different job from getting it from slow to fast.

Architecture3 min read

2026-09-18

The last hundred milliseconds

Getting an API and UI from fast to instant is a different job from getting it from slow to fast.

Architecture3 min read

2026-08-27

What a modular monolith is actually for

It is not for avoiding microservices forever. It is for keeping domain boundaries strict while shipping from a single repo.

Backend4 min read

2026-08-27

What a modular monolith is actually for

It is not for avoiding microservices forever. It is for keeping domain boundaries strict while shipping from a single repo.

Backend4 min read

2026-07-14

Designing local-first sync for multilingual text

Architecting resilient local storage, schema versioning, and delta replication for Ge'ez script hymns under unpredictable mobile connectivity.

Architecture4 min read

2026-07-14

Designing local-first sync for multilingual text

Architecting resilient local storage, schema versioning, and delta replication for Ge'ez script hymns under unpredictable mobile connectivity.

Architecture4 min read

2026-06-09

Zero-downtime schema migrations in PostgreSQL

How to evolve production Prisma and PostgreSQL tables without locking active reads or breaking running instances.

Database3 min read

2026-06-09

Zero-downtime schema migrations in PostgreSQL

How to evolve production Prisma and PostgreSQL tables without locking active reads or breaking running instances.

Database3 min read

2026-05-19

End-to-end type safety without the boilerplate

Bridging NestJS DTOs, Zod validation schemas, and Next.js Server Components so runtime data never drifts from compile-time types.

Frontend3 min read

2026-05-19

End-to-end type safety without the boilerplate

Bridging NestJS DTOs, Zod validation schemas, and Next.js Server Components so runtime data never drifts from compile-time types.

Frontend3 min read

2026-04-03

Idempotent webhooks and background workers

Third-party services will send the same event twice. Your database transactions should only ever execute once.

Backend3 min read

2026-04-03

Idempotent webhooks and background workers

Third-party services will send the same event twice. Your database transactions should only ever execute once.

Backend3 min read