technical-debt
9 posts
Rushing feels fast but creates rework, bugs, and firefighting. Why pausing for refactoring, tests, and CI upkeep is an investment in speed, not lost speed.
technical-debt · testing · ci-cd +2
Stop asking who wrote the legacy code. Separate responsibility, accountability, and blame, and make inherited code owned rather than orphaned.
engineering-culture · leadership · team-management +3
A practical guide to API versioning: URL vs header approaches, breaking changes, Sunset-header deprecation, AWS API Gateway, GraphQL, and contract testing.
api-design · deployment · graphql +4
Recognizing distributed monoliths, strategic service consolidation, and the honest reality of moving back to a modular monolith when complexity grows.
microservices · architecture · distributed-systems +2
Where RFC designs diverge from production reality, using notification systems as the worked example, and how to tell useful adaptation from architectural drift.
rfc · production · debugging +4
Multi-region deployment, database scaling, disaster recovery, and long-term maintenance patterns for production systems at scale.
aws-cdk · reliability · scalability +1
Before webpack, we concatenated files with Grunt and wrestled with jQuery spaghetti. How frontend tooling grew from manual file management to real build systems.
javascript · build-tools · technical-debt +2
How Google's 2009 Closure Compiler shaped modern web tooling, from dead code elimination to type checking, and its lasting mark on today's build tools.
javascript · build-tools · best-practices +6
Factories, service layers, and DI containers rarely earn their keep in a Lambda-shaped Node.js service. What replaces them, and where classes still win.
event-driven · functional-programming · lambda +3