Technical articles on software engineering, architecture, and building production systems.
After years of maintaining a monolithic Laravel app serving 150K users, I finally broke it apart. Here's the honest, unsanitized story of what worked, what exploded, and what I'd do differently.
I screened 300 candidates to hire 5 senior engineers. The data from that process revealed some uncomfortable truths about how we evaluate technical talent.
After building four production React apps with Redux, Zustand, Jotai, and plain context, here's when each one actually makes sense — and when you're just adding complexity for no reason.
Migrating a production database serving 150K users and 5M transactions felt like defusing a bomb while riding a unicycle. Here's the step-by-step play I used to pull it off with zero downtime.
Building a fintech wallet that passes SAMA compliance audits requires more than encryption. Here is every requirement we tracked, every pitfall we hit, and the checklist I wish I had from day one.
