Blog

Technical writing on backend engineering, systems design, performance optimization, and developer workflows. No filler — just depth.

May 2, 20268 min read

The $10,000 Typo: Why You Should Automate Your Local Workflow

A Friday evening commit with hardcoded AWS credentials can cost thousands. Here's how pre-commit hooks can save you — and your company — from that nightmare.

gitgit-hooksautomationsecuritydevopspre-commit

Read article

May 9, 202610 min read

Why Arrays Are Faster Than Linked Lists (It Starts with the CPU Cache!)

Both give O(n) traversal on paper. In practice, arrays can be 10x faster. The answer lives inside your CPU — and it's all about cache lines.

data-structuresperformancecpu-cachealgorithms

Read article

Topics in the pipeline: gRPC deep-dive, MongoDB change streams, Golang profiling