architecture
The Modest Monolith: Why You Should Stop Splitting Your Backend
Microservices solve organizational problems, not technical ones. If your engineering team still fits in a single room, distributed architecture is a self-inflicted tax.
Technical Bitacora
Engineering Blog
Documentation on software architecture, performance benchmarks, and high-stakes engineering.
architecture
The ORM Tax: What You Pay for Not Writing SQL
ORMs promise productivity by hiding SQL. The hidden cost shows up in every slow query, every N+1, and every abstraction layer that leaks at the worst possible moment.
traefik
The Wildcard That Wouldn't Fly: DNS-01, Traefik, and the .ovh Public Suffix List Trap
How a seemingly trivial DNS edge case turned a 5-minute Traefik setup into a deep dive into lego internals, and the exec provider workaround that finally fixed it.
architecture
Redis is Fantastic, Until it Becomes Your Single Point of Failure
Adding Redis to speed up your application makes sense, until you realize you've just traded database latency for network fragility.
devex
Surviving Toxic Developer Experience Syndrome
Spinning up 15 local containers to change an endpoint doesn't make you faster. It makes you the SysAdmin of your own laptop. Time to trim the fat.
docker
"depends_on" is a Lie: How Docker Healthchecks Actually Sequence Your Services
The race condition hiding in half the docker-compose.yml files out there, why depends_on alone doesn't guarantee service readiness, and how to actually fix it.
traefik
Reverse Proxying Everything: How Traefik Became My Home Lab's Backbone
From scattered port numbers to clean URLs with automatic SSL—my journey of putting Traefik in front of 36 services.
mysql
I Migrated a 2GB MySQL Database at 3 AM (And Lived to Tell the Tale)
A database migration story where the clock was ticking, the stakes were high, and mysqldump almost ended in disaster.
devops
The 30k RPM Traffic Spike: Why an AI Terminal is Useless if You Don't Know Nginx
Writing grep commands under pressure is slow. I used an AI terminal to parse logs during a 30k RPM spike, but it only worked because I knew what to ask.
architecture
The Invisible API: Modernizing Legacy Without the Drama
Why I refused to accept a traumatic rewrite and chose to build a silent bridge instead.
docker
Docker MACVLAN: Pulling My Containers Out of Isolation
Why I stopped using the default bridge network to give my services their own identity on the LAN.
wordpress
My Plugin Got Rejected 3 Times (And They Were Right)
The WordPress official repository review is exhaustive, but it's the only free security audit you'll ever get.