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Scanning the market, finding the gaps

Apr 14 · 4 min read · Every few months, I scan the job market. I want to know where I stand and whether I'm still moving in the right direction. This time, I went through several full interview processes. I targeted scaleu

We Gave Agents More Tasks and Forgot to Give Them the Right Problem

Apr 12 · 8 min read · I hear this over and over again: "Let's max our use of AI agents." It sounds smart. Agentic coding is getting better every day; every org is feeling pressure to use it more. But optimization is not al

Why don't we have .lock files in .NET

Feb 8 · 3 min read · If you ever worked with Node, Go (precisely a checksum), or Rust, you’ve seen lock files like Cargo.lock, yarn.lock. However, it’s not that common in .NET, and everything just works. So, to understand why .NET doesn’t need them (mostly), we first nee...

Writing more in 2026

Feb 2 · 3 min read · I plan to write a bit more this year. Nothing too ambitious - just capturing thoughts as they come, publishing short monthly updates to reflect on how things are evolving. Writing helps me. It forces me to think more clearly, and I have been doing it...

Intro to Load Balancers

Mar 27, 2024 · 30 min read · Lately, I've been on a quest, searching for resources that could break down the concept of Load Balancers in a way that's digestible yet not superficial. I aimed to discover something neither too generalistic nor too focused on implementation details...