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Technical writing on backend, architecture, and infrastructure.
When to move work off the request cycle, how to structure jobs reliably, and the operational patterns that keep queues healthy in production.
Practical patterns for integrating external APIs without letting their failures cascade into yours: adapters, circuit breakers, and retry strategies.
A practical primer on Infrastructure as Code from a backend perspective. Skip the theory, focus on what makes production infrastructure maintainable.
A pragmatic take on Clean Architecture for PHP backends. Skipping the ceremony, focusing on the boundaries and rules that pay off long-term.
The decisions you make on day one of an API design compound over time. Here are the ones I've learned to get right upfront.
The schema choices that look obvious in retrospect but are easy to get wrong early. Written from the perspective of maintaining production databases over years.
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