SLO-Driven Incident Response: From Alert Fatigue to Actual Reliability
Error budgets, burn-rate alerts, incident classification, and the post-incident review format that turns firefights into engineering.
Idempotency Keys in Distributed Systems: The Rules That Save You From Duplicates
How Stripe-style idempotency actually works, what to store, how long to keep it, and the failure modes retries create when you get it wrong.
Observability-Driven Development: Ship, Watch, Learn, Repeat
SLOs, structured logs, high-cardinality metrics, and the discipline of designing every feature with 'how would I debug this at 3am' as a first question.
Event-Driven Architecture With Just Postgres (Until You Really Can't)
Outbox pattern, LISTEN/NOTIFY, logical replication, and pg_cron — the surprising amount of event-driven system you can run on one Postgres before reaching for Kafka.
Postgres for Product Engineers: Indexing, JSONB, RLS, and the 20% That Ships Millions of Users
The Postgres playbook I've used across product teams — index type per workload, JSONB without regret, RLS that doesn't leak or crawl, connection pooling that survives spikes, and the observability that turns guessing into ground truth.