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Notes on backend reliability, AI in the SDLC, security, and cloud.
Backend
May 1, 2026
·11 min
Idempotent integrations: lessons from 8M transactions a day
Hard-won patterns for building integration layers that stay correct under retries, duplicates, and partial failures.
MuleSoftReliability
Security
Apr 1, 2026
·6 min
A pragmatic security checklist for small platform teams
The minimal set of controls that meaningfully reduce risk without slowing a small engineering team to a crawl.
SecurityDevOps
Cloud
Mar 1, 2026
·9 min
Right-sizing Kubernetes without breaking your SLOs
How to use usage telemetry to reduce Kubernetes resource waste without sacrificing reliability or introducing noisy alerts.
KubernetesCost