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FeaturedDesigning event-driven systems that age well
Thoughts on schema evolution, idempotency, and long-term operational simplicity.
- architecture
- event-driven
- reliability
Long-form notes on backend architecture, data systems, reliability, and lessons learned from building and operating production software.
I write primarily to clarify my own thinking. These articles are not tutorials or announcements, but reflections on real systems, trade-offs, and failures encountered while building and operating software in production.
Thoughts on schema evolution, idempotency, and long-term operational simplicity.
What breaks in real pipelines, and how to design for recovery and observability.
On-call realities, trade-offs, and why boring systems scale teams.
Lessons from collecting, cleaning, and serving real-world housing data over time.