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Notes from production — architecture, tooling, and opinions without corporate hype.
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Why we skipped Kubernetes
Honest postmortem for a team of five — not «K8s is bad».
Feb 2026
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Series: Building XBuilding X (1/4) — Rust CLI skeleton
From cargo init to first --help flag.
Jan 2026
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ToolingCI in 20 minutes
GitHub Actions yaml line by line.
Dec 2025
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OSSFirst PR etiquette
How not to be the person who gets muted.
Nov 2025
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Production TalesOutage at 2:14 a.m.
47 minutes and one line in .env — no blame hunt.
Oct 2025
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OpinionAI replacing developers?
What metrics say, not headlines.
Sep 2025
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ArchitectureEvent sourcing for small SaaS
Overkill or not — decision tree at the end.
Aug 2025
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SnippetOne shell alias
Saves 20 minutes a week — copy-paste friendly.
Jul 2025
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Series: Building XBuilding X (2/4) — tests in Rust
criterion, mock, when assert_eq is enough.
Jun 2025
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ToolingNeovim vs VS Code 2026
Not a holy war — two weeks each, comparison table.
May 2025
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OSSReleasing v1.0.0
semver, changelog, fear of responsibility.
Apr 2025
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Production TalesDB migration without downtime
Blue-green and 90-second rollback.
Mar 2025
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OpinionLeetcode interviews
Who needs them and who doesn't — no moralizing.
Feb 2025
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ArchitectureCDN edge caching
When Redis is redundant — whiteboard in text.
Jan 2025
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Series: Building XBuilding X (3/4) — docs and --help
clap, examples, man page you're not ashamed of.
Dec 2024
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UsesUses 2026
Hardware, software, why a 75% keyboard.
Jan 2026
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Engineering blog without corporate polish. dev.log is notes from production, not coursework summaries.
Season highlights
Spring Building X
Series continues — parts 3–4 and v1.0 release notes.
Summer tooling
IDE and CI refresh — two deep dives.
Autumn production
Postmortem month — three anonymized incidents.
Winter opinion
Hiring and AI — annual industry check-in.
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