Essays on scalability, JavaScript, and the operational seams of running software in production.

• May 28, 20269 min

  The cost of a thousand pods

  Horizontal scaling solves a lot of problems and creates one big one: every pod is a tiny machine with its own opinions about your database.

  #scalability#postgres#kubernetes
• Apr 14, 20267 min

  Postgres pooling in 2026

  A pragmatic survey of where pooling lives now — in the driver, in a sidecar, in the cloud — and which one to reach for first.

  #postgres#infrastructure
• Mar 02, 20266 min

  Type-driven infrastructure, finally

  SST and CDK pushed infra-as-code into TypeScript. The interesting part is what type inference does to the shape of a stack.

  #devops#typescript#iac
• Jan 21, 20265 min

  The quiet case for monorepos

  Not the Google-scale argument. The two-engineer argument: one repo, one CI, one shared types package, no coordination problem.

  #tooling#monorepo
• Nov 09, 20258 min

  Observability without a vendor

  OpenTelemetry, a single collector, and the discipline to instrument only what you will actually read. A minimal stack that costs almost nothing.

  #observability#otel
• Sep 17, 20254 min

  Deleting code as a practice

  On the strange, useful habit of opening a pull request whose only job is to remove things.

  #craft#process