Studies and Development Engineer
Forget the platitudes. Here's what actually shifts your trajectory from just writing code to owning systems, seen through the lens of someone who’s been on call too many times.
5 min readRemember that Tuesday at 2 AM? The one where a minor tenant's custom webhook brought down notification delivery for everyone? Yeah. We ended up deep in the trenches, comparing Go and Node.js for a critical RabbitMQ-backed service.
8 min readAnother 3 AM production incident survived. Time to talk about why we make our systems so damn complicated, and why sometimes, the most elegant solution is the one that just gets straight to the point.
6 min readAI coding assistants generate correct-looking code but often fail in production debugging. Learn why runtime profiling, system constraints, and execution paths matter more than generated solutions.
3 min readA security researcher found a 4GB file hiding inside Chrome called weights.bin. Nobody asked for it, nobody was told about it, and deleting it does nothing. Chrome just downloads it again. Here is the full story behind Google's most controversial AI move yet.
A dinner-plate-sized AI chip, a $20 billion OpenAI contract, and a 68% first-day surge. Cerebras just pulled off the biggest US tech IPO in seven years, and the story underneath the numbers is more interesting than the headline.
12 min readLearn how to install PostgreSQL and fix the “Peer authentication failed for user postgres” error on Linux systems using simple configuration changes and proper user setup.
7 min readAutomatically create Oracle free VMs when regions are saturated. Use GitHub Actions and scheduled retries to keep attempting instance creation until capacity becomes available.
5 min readAn API endpoint went from 500ms to 900ms after AI-suggested “optimizations,” until removing ORM abstraction and switching to raw SQL reduced it to 43ms, revealing how performance depends more on system understanding than generated fixes.
5 min readLocalhost is a comfortable, consequence-free fantasy. Production is where software goes to find out what it actually is. A 3am field report from someone who has been profiling things nobody asked them to profile.