When ARM64 Seemed Like a Good IdeaThere's a special kind of engineering pain reserved for bugs that get fixed twice. Not "fixed, then regressed" — actually fixed, root-caused, verified, closed — and then it comes back wearing a differ1MSep 30 · 6 min readworksonmyproduction.hashnode.dev
Kubernetes on a Shoestring: a Podman FableEvery engineer has a version of this story. Mine involves a laptop, a container runtime that quietly changed its mind about how it wanted to work, and a cloud VM that made me wait three weeks for the Sep 24 · 6 min readworksonmyproduction.hashnode.dev
I Audited My Own System and Didn't Like Everything I FoundThere's a particular flavor of dread that comes from opening your own pull request template and writing, at the top, "Security & Access-Control Hardening — Phase 52." You already know what that title 12MSep 21 · 7 min readworksonmyproduction.hashnode.dev
The Unglamorous Plumbing That Keeps a Marketplace HonestNobody puts "built an hourly cron job that checks for overdue queue entries" on a highlight reel. It doesn't animate well in a demo video. Nobody in a portfolio review has ever leaned forward and saidSep 20 · 7 min readworksonmyproduction.hashnode.dev
Event-Driven From Day One (Except the Part That Deliberately Wasn't)Every system design interview eventually arrives at the same moment: someone draws a box, then draws a queue next to it, and says "and this part is event-driven" with the quiet confidence of someone wSep 18 · 9 min readworksonmyproduction.hashnode.dev
