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Internal Developer Platforms: Stop Reinventing Wheels in Every Squad
DevOpsArchitecture Practices

Internal Developer Platforms: Stop Reinventing Wheels in Every Squad

Every squad reinventing the same deployment pipelines, logging stacks, and secrets management. Sound familiar? Here is how Internal Developer Platforms end the cycle and let your engineers focus on what actually matters.

14 min read
Event Sourcing: A History Lesson Your Database Actually Wants
Design PatternsData Management

Event Sourcing: A History Lesson Your Database Actually Wants

Event Sourcing solves the audit trail problem by storing every state change instead of just the current state, enabling complete historical accountability.

10 min read
Bulkheads: Because One Sinking Service Shouldn't Sink Them All
Design PatternsResilience

Bulkheads: Because One Sinking Service Shouldn't Sink Them All

I watched one misconfigured service take down an entire platform because everything shared the same resource pools. Here is the bulkhead pattern that prevents it, with a working .NET 8 demo you can run locally in minutes.

10 min read
The End of Phishing: Passkeys Make Lookalike Sites Useless
SecurityArchitecture Practices

The End of Phishing: Passkeys Make Lookalike Sites Useless

A passkey registered on bank.com will not activate on bank-secure-login.com. The cryptography enforces the boundary without asking the user to spot the fake. This post covers why traditional MFA keeps failing, what the 2025 adoption numbers actually say, and how to run a working passkey demo on your own machine in 20 minutes.

15 min read
Requirements That Actually Work: Atomic, Not Chaotic
Business ArchitectureStakeholder Management

Requirements That Actually Work: Atomic, Not Chaotic

Most requirements failures come from documents everyone signed off on but nobody could actually build from. This article walks through eight things your requirements are probably missing, from atomic statements and testable criteria to stakeholder concerns and acceptance conditions.

14 min read
Sandboxed Agents: Giving Your Code Monkeys Their Own Sandbox
SecurityDevOps

Sandboxed Agents: Giving Your Code Monkeys Their Own Sandbox

Coding agents that can delete your work, mine cryptocurrency, and exfiltrate data are not hypothetical. This post covers how sandboxed execution works, which isolation technologies to choose for your threat model, and how to build a working Docker-based sandbox from scratch.

18 min read
Spec-Driven Development: Let AI Read the Boring Stuff For You
Architecture PracticesDesign Patterns

Spec-Driven Development: Let AI Read the Boring Stuff For You

Most teams consult specifications when things break. Spec-driven development turns that around, making the spec the source of truth before a single line of code is written. This post covers the four pillars of SDD, a step-by-step Claude Code walkthrough using FHIR validation, the current tooling landscape, and an honest look at where the practice still falls short.

22 min read

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