Most of What We Call Progress

Most of what we call progress in software is just motion. New tools, new frameworks, same problems. Maybe fancier logos. Our industry always has this collective thrill that a new fancy method, framework, process will make things infinitely better. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. I’ve watched that excitement enough times to recognize its cycles. Years ago, a colleague was setting up Apache […]

You Know State Is NO Good

Every engineer learns this the hard way. You think the logic is solid, your tests are green, and your deployment goes smoothly. Looks all good, right? Then you have an outage. Not because the code is wrong, but because some tiny piece of state went rogue. A cache goes out of sync. A session refuses to expire. A queue forgets […]