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Short stories
Small write-ups from the trenches — the kind of thing I'd post on LinkedIn. Click a card to read the whole story.
# zero-downtime3 min read
The migration nobody noticed
We replaced a live auction platform — database and all — while people kept bidding. Here’s how Debezium CDC made that boring (in the best way).
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# scale2 min read
170,000 people showed up. The servers stayed up.
Black Friday Brazil, a team of 10, and the kind of load test you can’t simulate. What peak-demand events teach you about honest engineering.
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# quality2 min read
How automated tests cut our support tickets by 40%
Nobody wanted to write tests. Then we made them the default instead of the exception — and the ticket queue got quiet.
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# cost2 min read
We cut serverless spend 90% by doing less
Serverless was supposed to be cheap. At global consumer-app scale, per-invocation pricing had other plans.
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# startup2 min read
What co-founding a startup taught me about queues
At Challenge Place we had real-time features, no budget, and Redis. Lua scripting turned it into a queueing engine that never let us down.
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