Stories by andection

Professional Programming: The First 10 Years

The Software Engineer's Guidebook: A Recap

Backpressure in Distributed Systems

A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers

Clean Code, Clear Writing: William Zinsser's Principles for Developers

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

I still keep up with my Unsuccessful YouTube journey

P99Conf 2025 Recap: Rust, LLMs, and the Art of shaving down latency

Realtime Content Deduplication at Scale: How We Cut Cost by 86%

Common Go Patterns for Performance

Problems with CAP, and Yahoo's little known NoSQL system

Cost Efficient Candidate Deduplication in RecSys

Cost Observability and Guardrails

Why Care About Cost as Software Engineer?

Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (2004)

Turning the database inside-out (2015)

Best practices for building and deploying recommender systems

We (Almost:)) Achieve End-to-End Exactly-Once Processing with Flink

Kafka Transactions Explained

Eric Lippert on Technical Blogging