Blog
Field notes on backend systems, distributed reliability, payments, and production AI — the long-form behind the proof library.
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The Code Isn't the Signal Anymore: What Sets Strong Engineers Apart When AI Writes It
Commit history, decomposition, and review discipline stopped being hygiene and became the main lever on speed — and the clearest signal of a strong engineer — once the agent writes the code. With quotes from Willison, Ronacher, Böckeler and data from METR, DORA, GitClear.
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Temporal Payment Saga in Production: Geo-Distributed Deposits
How a 6-step Temporal saga with LIFO compensations makes cross-region deposits effectively exactly-once: real timeouts, idempotency keys, FX replay.
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Transactional Outbox in Go: Both Halves of Effectively-Once
Producer-side outbox plus consumer-side inbox dedup in Go and Postgres: ordering, cleanup, and running payment events at 1M+/day with zero double-processing.
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How this site works — an AI-readable engineering portfolio
A colophon. The architecture behind this site — static-first Astro, a machine-readable layer for AI agents, and an assistant grounded in the same published content.