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Engineering notes
Short articles we share with clients and friends — not a substitute for a full consulting engagement.
What to expect
Short reads with practical defaults — written for builders, not for buzzwords.
- Clear opinions and trade-offs, in plain language
- Release discipline and reliability patterns
- Observability notes that control cost and noise
- Client-ready writeups you can share internally
Posts
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Why service level objectives and trace budgets beat wall-of-graphs monitoring.
Read articleSampling, cardinality discipline, and choosing the few signals that actually matter.
Feature flags, phased rollouts, and crash budgets for sustainable cadence.
A simple gate that prevents “ship now, fix later” from becoming a habit.
A minimal system for safe rollout, experiments, and fast rollback.
How to ship changes safely across teams without “breaking Friday”.
Lightweight controls that catch real issues without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Reducing blast radius with simple defaults for tokens, keys, and access.
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