Field notes
Notes in progress.
Short observations, build notes, and engineering lessons. Less polished than essays — an active thinking archive.
Apr 20
On idempotency in distributed systems
Apr 15#backend#platform
Why I stopped using ORMs for reporting queries
Apr 8#backend#sql
Prompt caching in production: what actually matters
Mar 30#applied-ai
Structured outputs vs function calling
Mar 22#applied-ai
The underrated value of boring architecture
Mar 14#platform
How I run async standups for distributed teams
Mar 6#communication
Notes on Kafka consumer rebalancing in the wild
Feb 27#platform#kafka
What I look for in senior engineering candidates
Feb 14#career
A small note on backpressure
Jan 15#backend
Joining Minerva — first impressions from week one
Nov 4#career#platform
If you can't see it, you haven't built it
Sep 17#platform#backend
Review your own PRs first
Jul 21#communication#career
Code review etiquette I wish I learned sooner
May 12#communication
The first outage I owned end-to-end
Mar 8#career#platform
When to stop refactoring
Sep 18#career#backend
Why I started writing publicly
Jun 4#communication#career
What I learned my first year as a senior engineer
#career