I’m a staff engineer and I’ve spent my career building things in the Saas startup space, at everything from seed-round companies to public giants. The one constant you’ll see anywhere is that if yo...

This post is the first in a multipart series talking about practical system design. I’ve read too many system design posts that fail to give strong advice for when to use a given pattern. Instead t...

What color is your function? One of my software blog posts that I always go back to is the now famous What Color is Your Function?. After multiple read-throughs and reading through the comments bo...