AI & The Future
AI in Cybersecurity
A practical reflection on AI in cybersecurity: how AI helps detection, triage, secure coding, and incident response while creating new risks around automation, privacy, prompt injection, and false confidence.
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Deep-dives on software architecture and the way source code is structured — written to be understood by beginners, yet useful to teams shipping at scale. Diagrams, real examples, no hand-waving.
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Engineering Culture
Office Politics Without Losing Your Principles
A practical guide to reading incentives, sharing context, pre-aligning openly, disagreeing with evidence, protecting boundaries, and knowing when a workplace is no longer worth the cost.
Source & Architecture
Do You Need a Service Mesh? Let Production Evidence Decide
A practical decision guide for service mesh adoption: which production signals justify it, where the extra layer can fail, and how to pilot and roll back without betting the whole platform.
Ways of Working
Trunk-Based Development
A practical introduction to trunk-based development: small frequent merges, feature flags, fast tests, code review discipline, and the team habits needed to keep the main branch healthy.
Perspectives & Field Notes
Overcoming Analysis Paralysis
A reflective essay on analysis paralysis: why careful thinking can turn into delay, how to separate reversible from irreversible choices, and how small experiments help decisions move without rushing.
AI & The Future
Reducing Hallucinations in LLMs
A practical guide to reducing LLM hallucinations with clearer tasks, bounded context, retrieval, citations, verification, refusals, evaluation sets, and product design that makes uncertainty visible.
Engineering Culture
The Difference Between Mentorship and Sponsorship
A calm explanation of mentorship and sponsorship in engineering careers: how advice, feedback, advocacy, visibility, trust, and opportunity work together without turning growth into politics.
Source & Architecture
Event Sourcing: A Beginner's Guide
A beginner-friendly guide to Event Sourcing: storing facts as an append-only event history, rebuilding current state through projections, and understanding when the pattern is worth its operational cost.
Ways of Working
TDD: Is It Worth the Time?
A practical reflection on when Test-Driven Development is worth the cost: how TDD shapes design, where it slows teams down, and how to use the red-green-refactor loop without turning it into dogma.