Understand how SOLID principles work all at once to support each other, and their role as evolutionary guardrails for software systems.

Distributed systems give us tremendous scalability, but we need to build them right to reap the full benefits of this complicated architecture

A deep dive into software scalability, strategies for building a scalable system, and adopting distributed system design as the key to scalability

Much of what we do at work can be seen from two sides. To really learn how to do your job, find a way to get to the other side.

Hope is not a strategy. The only way to do effective short term planning is to say “no” brutally.

Part 2 of the series covers some nuances in using the caching architecture pattern and offers some tips in scaling the cache infrastructure for larger loads.

The first of an introduction to the use of caching in system design and some nuances on how it works in real-world architectures

Failures in distributed systems are not bugs, they are features. Don’t worry about preventing errors, focus on isolating them. Focus on speed of detection and fixing.

Action is necessary, but not sufficient for mastery. ‘Mindful’ action is the key. Conscious practice builds subconscious competence.

Understanding a common pattern of entity models evolve, and why the process works that way.

How to adopt an evolutionary mindset and use feature requests as a breeding ground for the next generation of the system’s architecture

The financialization inherent to the crypto-web’s architecture is the reason it is ticking, and the reason we shouldn’t let it tick.

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you …

General guidelines for writing useful libraries

Extreme achievements in competitive programming among college students is useless as a hiring signal